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

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

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

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.

Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise the audience.

I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.

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.