Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Edward Dmytryk

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Edward Dmytryk was an American film director. He was known for his 1940s noir films and received an Oscar nomination for Best Director for Crossfire (1947). In 1947, he was named as one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of blacklisted film industry professionals who refused to testify to the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in their investigations during the McCarthy-era 'Red scare'. They all served time in prison for contempt of Congress. In 1951, however, Dmytryk did testify to HUAC and named individuals, including Arnold Manoff, whose careers were then destroyed for many years, in order to rehabilitate his own career. First hired again by independent producer Stanley Kramer in 1952, Dmytryk is likely best known for directing The Caine Mutiny (1954), a critical and commercial success. The second-highest-grossing film of the year, it was nominated for Best Picture and several other awards at the 1955 Oscars. Dmytryk was nominated for a Directors Guild Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures.

American - Director | September 4, 1908 - July 1, 1999

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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.

Edward Dmytryk

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

Edward Dmytryk

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

Edward Dmytryk

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

In art, the obvious is a sin.

Edward Dmytryk

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

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

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

Edward Dmytryk

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

Edward Dmytryk

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

Edward Dmytryk

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.

Edward Dmytryk

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

Edward Dmytryk

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.

Edward Dmytryk

Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Edward Dmytryk

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