I may be getting old, but not foolish.

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.

I value peace, too, when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.

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

I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.

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