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

In art, the obvious is a sin.

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

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.

All I ever wanted to do was go to Hogwarts and have a mate to get up to mayhem with. Just like Harry Potter. And I got his son. How crazily fortunate is that.

One must not align himself with the beliefs that limit his thinking

She had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her away from others, even those who would be her friends.

A person should be important to you for you to be also important to the person so that you will be important to any other person.

My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne.

Other men's crosses are not my crosses.

You sit around watching all this stuff happen on TV. . . and the TV sits and watches us do nothing! The TV must think we're all pretty lame.

Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public.

I'm a musician, so for the most part I've always thought that the musicians were equally as inspiring to listen to - maybe more so, in some cases - in addition to the artists.

I fear a permanent Confederation will never be settled; tho the most material articles are I think got thro', so as to give great offence to some, but to my Satisfaction.