I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.
Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.
I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.
I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.
I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.
I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.
There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.
Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything.
I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.