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

I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.

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

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

The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.

I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.

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.