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The witch-hunting McCarthy era found Hollywood's view of the press growing bleaker along with the decade's view of everything else.

The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.

As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.

In doing the screenplay for 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' the most important thing for me was to constantly go back to wherever the opposition would argue. So I had to keep reading all the books and articles about why McCarthy is such a good guy.

One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like.

McCarthy's prose in 'Blood Meridian' comes blazing from the Book of Revelation.

There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.

Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.

I'm a huge Cormac McCarthy fan and have read every book of his.