To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but it is bitter and unforgettable.

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.

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

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

I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.

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

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.