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

Some suggestions for you :

The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.

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 owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.

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.

Hey, you must be doin' good, 'cause I never hear from you.

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

Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.

The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.

Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

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

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

I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.