Hey, you must be doin' good, 'cause I never hear from you.

I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.

To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but it is bitter and unforgettable.

When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on.

The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.

For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.