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Edward Dmytryk

"In art, the obvious is a sin."

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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 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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