The Fugitive Kind (1960)

"By the time the company moved to the Bronx for a few weeks to shoot interiors, [Anna] Magnani had managed to alienate most of the cast and the entire crew. She had already demanded the firing of [cinematographer] Boris Kaufman and several technicians, and when [Martin] Jurow warned her that she was turning everyone against her, she responded, according to [Meade] Roberts, 'I'm the queen, and the queen rules and her subjects love her. If she loves them, whips them, kicks them, kills them, they still give her loyalty.' To this the producer angrily replied, 'This is the United States. We have a democracy here!'"  -- Peter Manso, Brando: the Biography, p. 508