"When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you ..." — Elia Kazan

The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.

I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.

The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.

A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.