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

I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.

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

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

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 would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.

I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.