Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.

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

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

To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but it is bitter and unforgettable.

I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.

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

A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.