Home / Quotes / Quote by Edward Dmytryk

Quote by Edward Dmytryk

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

Quote by Edward Dmytryk

Author

Edward Dmytryk was a renowned film director known for his exceptional contributions to war films and noir cinema. His unique style and profound insights into human nature and the horrors of war have left a lasting impact on audiences. more

You May Also Like

“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.”

Long Party Careers Sacrifice My Family Defense Communist Dislike Distrust Communist Party

Book:It's a hell of a life, but not a bad living

Source: It's a hell of a life, but not a bad living

“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.”

People Long Party Known Als Committees Handful Fbi

Author:Edward Dmytryk

“Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment.”

People Different Moments Force Realizing Creating Clean Mess Administration Different Things Heroic Delta

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of.”

People Way Littles Long Has Beens Ideas Reading Bits Term Periods Lessons Little Bit Connections Iraq Currents Long Term Occupation

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money.”

People Littles Bigs America Fighting Force Revolution Army Slave Driven North America Chunks Haiti Little Money

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places.”

People Happenings

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to Haiti.”

People Thinking Country Haiti Cnn

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it.”

People Want Trying Hard Information Alternatives

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.”

Said Nations Interest Policy

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“That's whatever news topic, whatever political process any country is going through - whenever they are in the news, that's when they exist. If you don't see them they don't exist.”

Ifs Country Political Process News Topics

Author:Edwidge Danticat