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

The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself, undiminished.

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

I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.

For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.

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

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.