Quotes by Edward Dmytryk - Page 1

In art, the obvious is a sin.
Edward Dmytryk / Film Director
Art
Obvious
Sin
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The only reason for using another cut is to improve the scene.
Edward Dmytryk / Film Director
Scene
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With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names.
Edward Dmytryk / Film Director
Communist
Communist Party
Names
Party
Defending
Naming
Worse
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The films dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.
Edward Dmytryk / Film Director
Editing
Film
Requirements
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The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.
Edward Dmytryk / Film Director
Aesthetic
Dramatic
Editing
Mere
Precedence
Requirements
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I was surprised to see the meeting was of Communists and the whole meeting was along Communist lines.
Edward Dmytryk / Film Director
Communist
Lines
Meetings
Meeting
Surprised
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Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.
Edward Dmytryk / Film Director
Humanity
Counts
Manufacture
Skill
Technical
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Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist.
Edward Dmytryk / Film Director
Dozen
Half
Single Person
Named
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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.
Edward Dmytryk / Film Director
Fbi
Handful
Long
Party
People
Al
Committee
Few People
Literally
Whom
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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.
Edward Dmytryk / Film Director
Careers
Communist
Communist Party
Defense
Dislike
Party
Sacrifice
Believed
Forced
Grown
Separated
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The 'human situation,' in all its guises, is what good films are all about, and technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.
Edward Dmytryk / Film Director
Humanity
Littles
Skills
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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.
Edward Dmytryk / Film Director
Bitter
Choices
Democratic
Fighting
Party
Structure
Traditional
Bitter End
Choice
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With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names. I did not want to remain a martyr to something that I absolutely believed was immoral and wrong. It's as simple as that.
Edward Dmytryk / Film Director
Names
Party
Simple
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