Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.

I was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.

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.

The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.