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

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

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

I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.

I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.

When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on.