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

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

The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.

Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.

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