Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

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You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual.

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

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The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

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

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The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.

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I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.

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The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.

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Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?

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I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.

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