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

I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

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

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

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

I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.