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.

In art, the obvious is a sin.

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

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.

Mountains were made to climb, therefore dont cry when you see one.

The ultimate experience of being mindful occurs when we forget about everything, even the mindful self and doing. In that mode we are full of energy, utterly self-generated.

Because becoming suns to enlighten other people's faded suns is really worth it

The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone.

First Step To Lose Weight.....Get and Stay ACTIVE!

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

A kitchen without a knife is not a kitchen.

I loved watching so many of the great designers I've worked with do what they do. That's why I'm still loyal to the designers that I've known since I was 16.