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

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

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

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"In art, the obvious is a sin."

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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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