I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this.

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

Wonder is our need today, not information.

I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.

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

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

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