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.
From Elia Kazan
Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.
I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.
I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.
A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.
Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.
Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything.
The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
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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