16 Quotes by Edward Dmytryk

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 been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.

The films dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.

In art, the obvious is a sin.

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 did not want to remain a martyr to something that I absolutely believed was immoral and wrong. It’s as simple as that.

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.