“The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.”

Quoted in an interview from Hollywood Voices, ed. Andrew Sarris (1971).

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American actor, director, writer and producer 1915–1985

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