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"The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing."
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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."
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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."
"To see things as the poet sees them I must share his consciousness and not attend to it; I must look where he looks and not turn round to face him; I must make of him not a spectacle but a pair of spectacles; in fine, as Professor Alexander would say, I must enjoy him and not contemplate him."
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"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."
"Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist."
"I was surprised to see the meeting was of Communists and the whole meeting was along Communist lines."
"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."
"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."
"The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing."
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