I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.
I didn't have that much confidence. Maybe it looks that way. I'm glad it does.
You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.
A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.
Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?
Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.
Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.
Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.
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.
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 joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later.
I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.
There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway.