I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.

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

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

There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway.

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

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

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