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

Criticism- a big bite out of someone's back.

If you're going to play a cowboy, show up with the horse at the audition

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

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

The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.

One final thing a director needs: The ability to say 'I am wrong' or 'I was wrong.' Not as easy as it sounds. But in many situations, these 3 words, honestly spoken, will save the day.