Edward Dmytryk Quotes

• With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names.

  Edward Dmytryk

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Communist, Party

• The only reason for using another cut is to improve the scene.

  Edward Dmytryk

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  Tags in Scene, Improvement

• I was surprised to see the meeting was of Communists and the whole meeting was along Communist lines.

  Edward Dmytryk

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  Tags in Surprised, Meeting

• Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.

  Edward Dmytryk

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Technical, Skill

• The film’s dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.

  Edward Dmytryk

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  Tags in Dramatic, Film, Requirement

• 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

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Self, Career, Communist, Party

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Person

• In art, the obvious is a sin.

  Edward Dmytryk

  Topics in Art

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Committee

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Democratic Party, Structure

Edward Dmytryk (10)

Birth:	4th September, 1908
Death:	1st July, 1999
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Film Director

About

Edward Dmytryk was born in Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada. He was a Canadian-born American film director. He was known for his 1940s film noirs and received an Oscar nomination for best director for Crossfire. He was nominated for a Directors Guild Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures. He made his directorial debut with The Hawk in 1935. He made two World War II films: Hitler's Children, the story of the Hitler Youth; and Back to Bataan, starring John Wayne. Later in the 1960s and 1970s, he directed The Carpetbaggers, Where Love Has Gone -both based on novels by Harold Robbins; Anzio - his last WWII film; Alvarez Kelly, Shalako, and Bluebeard. He taught about film and directing at the University of Texas at Austin, and at the University of Southern California film school. He wrote several books on the art of filmmaking.

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