Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise the audience.

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

Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

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.

I was always a self-conscious person.