With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names. I did not want to remain a martyr to something that I absolutely believed was immoral and wrong. It's as simple as that.

The films dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.

Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist.

With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names.

In art, the obvious is a sin.

I was surprised to see the meeting was of Communists and the whole meeting was along Communist lines.

I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party to the bitter end.