I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.
I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.
Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.
I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.
I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.
The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.
I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this.
I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am.
A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.
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 didn't have that much confidence. Maybe it looks that way. I'm glad it does.
The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it.
The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.
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 may be getting old, but not foolish.
I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
Hey, you must be doin' good, 'cause I never hear from you.