Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.

The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.

I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this.