And he sent a few louts over to see me in my office in Hollywood, and they were particularly uneducated and dumb and they fell into a marvelous trap. Because they said to me: 'Are you a card carrying communist?' [...] I said, 'Will you define what a Communist is?' [...] 'Well .... what's a communist .... well, I guess whatever you make goes to government'. I said 'I am 86% communist. The rest is capitalist ... that's the income tax one pays ... [in 1974 in his income bracket]

From:
Orson Welles - Interview (1974)
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