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.
The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.
The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.
I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
