Lee Grant Quotations

People break down after a couple of hours. All the defenses go down, and there's a kind of communication that if I spent 20 years in a living room with one of these people, I would never, never know as much about them as I do in that one day.

I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.

My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night.

This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth.

Its a very good feeling to be around a man who thinks women are juicy.

A lot of very, very big stars were going down and not being seen or heard from again. Kirk took a huge chance in putting a blacklisted writer's name on the screen and somehow or other, he survived it, like he survives everything.

I did my very first film with Kirk in Detective Story when he was the greatest, greatest star in the world. I fell in love with him, had a crush on him then.

When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of his life. Sidney had gone ahead of every other African American actor.

I don't think I fit the Marilyn Maxwell mode.

You dont need a love scene to show love.

I am proud of Kirk. I think he drums to his own drummer in every way.

I know what you go through when you learn someone close to you has died.

Kirk is a man, and he loves it. He loves women.

Every actor in the room honored Sidney for being there so many years before. And everybody was so moved to be at a place where history was being made again. It was tangible.

What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. Its just remarkable.

Nobody wants to see anyone who has been there all their lives disintegrate. Dick has been always there and always young, and if he has a stroke, that means I'm vulnerable, too. Unfortunately, we all are.

I think there was a longing in both of them to do a film together,

We probably have backup supplies from 1992. For peace and harmony I have to do these things.

You get down so deep in those kind of hours, and people break down after a couple of hours. All the defenses go down, and there's a kind of communication that if I spent 20 years in a living room with one of these people, I would never, never know as much about them as I do in that one day.

If you are a star in Hollywood then you are always a star in your eyes, but not always in the eyes of new directors for whom your great performances are always fading into the past.

From the time she was born, until she was fifteen, I didn't know where I left off and she began. We were joined at the hip or the heart or the brain.

Shared laughter creates a bond of friendship.