Edward Dmytryk Quotes

"With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names."
- Edward Dmytryk
(Related: Names, Party)

"The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing."
- Edward Dmytryk
(Related: Aesthetics, Film)

"The only reason for using another cut is to improve the scene."
- Edward Dmytryk
(Related: Reason)

"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

"In art, the obvious is a sin."
- Edward Dmytryk
(Related: Art, Obvious, Sin)

"I was surprised to see the meeting was of Communists and the whole meeting was along Communist lines."
- Edward Dmytryk
(Related: Meeting)

"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
(Related: People, Committee, Party)

"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
(Related: Choice, End, Fight, Party)

"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
(Related: Family, Sacrifice, Being, Career, Defense, Distrust, Party)