I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.

The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.

The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.

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

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

I joined the Communist Party late in the summer of 1934. I got out a year and a half later.

You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.