The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.

The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.

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

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.

I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.