Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist.

The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.

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

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.

In art, the obvious is a sin.

The only reason for using another cut is to improve the scene.

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.

I was surprised to see the meeting was of Communists and the whole meeting was along Communist lines.

I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party to the bitter end.

Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were

You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.

Birds dont just fly they fall down and get up Nobody learns without getting it wrong.

Writing for videogames is really unique. You learn all the rules of writing, but there's a whole other set of rules for game writing, and we're changing them as we move along as well, which makes it more challenging.

There is one thing on which Arik will make no concessions: terrorism.

As a single woman, I reap the benefits of being Stifler's mom.

Grace is but glory begun and glory is but grace perfected.

I consider myself pretty lazy, but I look back and check out the stuff I've done, and I say, 'God, that's a lot of stuff for a lazy guy.' It's a paradox, I suppose, being both things.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

The challenging part of parenting for me is to make sure that an individual person is an individual and not some sort of cookie-cutter version of me. At the same time, I want to make sure that I impart my sense of the world as an adult.

I think it's important that nobody forgets that although Hollywood commercially dominates the world cinema, in fact what comes out of the filmmaking here is only a tiny slice out of the massive amount of operation that goes on around the world.

I have sleepless nights before press days.

Exploitation mutilation mutations confirmation to the evils of the world.

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.

But charity is a very complicated thing. It's important to find an area where you can really help and you can feel the results. Charity is not like feeding pigeons in the square. It is a process that requires professional management.

You can do anything with beer that you can do with wine. Beer is great for basting or marinating meat and fish.

'Ocean's Kingdom' is a fairy story with no subtext, no resonance - it's not about anything except its water-logged plot.

You never know what can happen. I feel like I have a pretty good chance, but you never know.

Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.

Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form.

You know when you're writing, and it's just you and the computer screen, and you never think that anyone is ever going to read it... you're able to say private things when you're writing.

Once you drink one glass, you want another.

I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

Write down everything you can think of, no matter how stupid it seems. I always write down my thoughts throughout the day. Sometimes good things come out of it, and I'll find an idea to develop into a song, so my best advice is to try and draw inspiration from everyday things.