A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.

There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway.

Wonder is our need today, not information.

Criticism- a big bite out of someone's back.

I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.

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

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.