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

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.

I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.

I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.

Hey, you must be doin' good, 'cause I never hear from you.

The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.

Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.