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

You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.

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

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

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

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

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