Quotes

[on the failure of his friend and partner Stanley Kramer to support him during the days of the blacklist]: Stanley had been a long time becoming a liberal and he had grown to love President Roosevelt very much and he felt it was unjust that, as a liberal, he should be tarred with the Communist brush. We were very successful and he really didn't want to be guilty by association.

There are no villains in my stuff. The heavy is always the mass or the environment, never a personal heavy.

I've only one thing to say, really, one basic theme. I'm involved with the struggle of the individual against a society that, for one reason or another, is hostile.