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

I may be getting old, but not foolish.

Acting, I found, was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?

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.

It's difficult, if not impossible, to get away with anything false before the camera. That instrument penetrates the husk of the actor; it reveals what's truly happening - if anything, if nothing. A close-up demands absolute truth. It's a severe and awesome truth

The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.

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.