I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.

Hey, you must be doin' good, 'cause I never hear from you.

The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it.

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

Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.

I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.

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