Wonder is our need today, not information.

It's difficult, if not impossible, to get away with anything false before the camera. That instrument penetrates the husk of the actor; it reveals what's truly happening - if anything, if nothing. A close-up demands absolute truth. It's a severe and awesome truth

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

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

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

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

I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.