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

The camera is more than a recorder, it's a microscope. It penetrates, it goes into people and you see their most private and concealed thoughts.

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.

If you're going to play a cowboy, show up with the horse at the audition

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

I value peace, too, when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.

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