"The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle."

"Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all."

"A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later."

"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes."

"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America."

"The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less."

"You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is a Red, that man is a Communist!' You never hear a real American talk like that."

"Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity."