Edward Dmytryk Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Our life is all about the choices we make, and when I was looking for a mate for life, I really was looking for someone who was a family man, somebody who would embrace my girls as much as they were going to embrace me. I guess I just wasn't finished having children yet.

Joan Lunden

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

Edward Dmytryk

#4. 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

#5. I've heard girls like it when you listen

Susan May Warren

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

Edward Dmytryk

#7. In that other life, I am the center of my world. Of course, I love and care about other people - many other people. But at the end of the day, my thoughts and actions are mainly about managing my own life and my own emotions. Here,

Cynthia Swanson

#8. 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

#9. In art, the obvious is a sin.

Edward Dmytryk

#10. 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

#11. Not only did I enjoy the creative side of Playboy and enjoy being surrounded by people who are curious about life, but I also love the analytical and hard business side of it.

Christie Hefner

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

Edward Dmytryk

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

Edward Dmytryk

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

Edward Dmytryk

#15. You can't celebrate gifts without celebrating the giver of all gifts ...

LeCrae

#16. Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.

Michelle Sagara West