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

Acting, I found, was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?

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

I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.

Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.

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.

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