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.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

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.

I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.

I may be getting old, but not foolish.

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.

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