With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names.

In art, the obvious is a sin.

The films dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.

I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.

I was surprised to see the meeting was of Communists and the whole meeting was along Communist lines.

I only knew a few people, literally a handful of people, al of whom had been in the Party long before I was, all of whom were known by the FBI and were known to the Committee.

Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist.

The 'human situation,' in all its guises, is what good films are all about, and technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.

Read to escape reality . . . Write to embrace it.

You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.

I will fight for you, and if you know me well enough, you know i am pretty darn good at winning.

I had glow in the dark bands made up and I've given away a ton of them.

Judge [Samuel] Alito should see criticism as a badge of honor worn by many past and present members of the Court.

I do like to smoke pot. I think it's good.

Imagine a world without shadows. You cannot touch a shadow, but a world without them is a hard world, and flat.

Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.

Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time.

Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they're back on the streets. Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.