Edward Dmytryk Quotes
- The films dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.
- 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…
- 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…
- In art, the obvious is a sin.
- I was surprised to see the meeting was of Communists and the whole meeting was along Communist lines.
- Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist.
- With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names.
- 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…
- 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…
- Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.
- The only reason for using another cut is to improve the scene.