Acting, I found, was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?

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

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this.

The camera is more than a recorder, it's a microscope. It penetrates, it goes into people and you see their most private and concealed thoughts.

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

I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.