To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but it is bitter and unforgettable.

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.

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

I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.

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

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

I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.