I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am.

The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.

The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.

I joined the Communist Party late in the summer of 1934. I got out a year and a half later.

I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.

I was always a self-conscious person.

I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.