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

Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.

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.

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.

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

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

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.