I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.

I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.

I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.

Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.

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

I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.

I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.