I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

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

The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself, undiminished.

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

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.