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Edward Dmytryk [1908-1999] American
Rank: 104
Director, Film director


Edward Dmytryk was a Canadian-born American film director. He was known for his 1940s films noir and received an Oscar nomination for Best Director for Crossfire.

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