I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.

When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on.

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

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.

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

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

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