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

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

I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.

I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.

There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway.

Never underestimate the narcissism of a writer.

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.