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

I may be getting old, but not foolish.

I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.

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

I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.

I was always a self-conscious person.

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.