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

The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.

I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.

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

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.

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

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