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

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

Never underestimate the narcissism of a writer.

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.

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

Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.

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