- [referring to the blacklisting that came about as a result of the HUAC hearings during the McCarthy "Red Scare" era of the 1950s] If you said you were sorry you were a radical and had seen the errors of your ways, you were let off. That's like saying you have no right to make political experiments in your mind. That's the kind of thing they do in Communist countries, but we're supposed to be a free country. We need to be a genuinely free country and not merely pretend to be one.
[referring to director Elia Kazan, who "named names" at the HUAC hearings during the McCarthy "Red Scare" era] He's a creep. I wouldn't say hello to him if he came across the street. - Because we can't be [Joseph Stalin], we become movie directors.
- [on watching the rushes of a day's filming]: Dailies can fool you. They're full of momentary energy. You have no way of knowing until they're cut together in the whole film if anything is going there. Accidental energy cancels out and things just lay there.
- [on John Garfield]: He defended his street-boy's honor, and they killed him for it.
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