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

I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.

If you're going to play a cowboy, show up with the horse at the audition

I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable.

I value peace, too, when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.

I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.

For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.