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" The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end. "

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" I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them. "

" I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise. "

" What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties. "

" Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it. "

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

" I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action. "

" The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it. "

" You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive. "

" I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor. "

" I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later. "

" I may be getting old, but not foolish. "

" I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist. "

" I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement. "

" I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique. "

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

" I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made. "

" To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable. "

" I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action. "

" I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt. "

" A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people. "

" 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. "

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

" I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me. "

" Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit. "

" You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual. "

" I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed. "

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