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" Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick? "
Good
Quick
Artist
" A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people. "
Shot
Director
Film
" A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do. "
Director
Going
Good
" Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting. "
Disturbing
People
Something
" Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him. "
Him
Fighter
Breaks
" Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it. "
Miracle
Picture
Little
" For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists. "
Faithful
American
Thinking
" Hey, you must be doin' good, 'cause I never hear from you. "
You
Never
Hey
" I didn't have that much confidence. Maybe it looks that way. I'm glad it does. "
Way
Confidence
Glad
" I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action. "
Remember
Action
Nothing
" I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am. "
Life
Myself
Theatre
" 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. "
Believe
Hate
Giving Up
" 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. "
Tell
Spy
Time
" I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later. "
Communist
Got
Party
" I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice. "
Before
Voice
Audience
" I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual. "
Difficult
Dangerous
Come
" I may be getting old, but not foolish. "
Old
Foolish
Getting Old
" I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action. "
Important
Film
Action
" I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable. "
Compliant
Nor
Agreeable
" I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me. "
Director
Made
Me
" I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise. "
Money
Think
Value
" I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show. "
Show
Said
Becoming
" I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt. "
Suffer
Contradiction
Fear
" I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb. "
I Think
Collaboration
Thumb
" I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood. "
Power
Political
Believe
" I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me. "
Like
Me
Nice
" I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies. "
Fundamental
Peace
Price
" I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends. "
Myself
Best
Friends
" I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity. "
Courage
Want
Generosity
" I was always a self-conscious person. "
Person
Always
Self-Conscious
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