Quotes by Edward Dmytryk

• Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.
• With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names.
• The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.
• The only reason for using another cut is to improve the scene.
• Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.