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.
Lee Grant

You don't need a love scene to show love.
Lee Grant

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

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

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.
Lee Grant

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.
Lee Grant

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