I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.
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The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.
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The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.
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Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
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I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
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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.
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