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Douglas Sirk

"Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on the picture. During shooting, Goldstein left, and Ross was most pleasant. He never interfered."

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"Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on the picture. During shooting, Goldstein left, and Ross was most pleasant. He never interfered."

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A.E. Samaan

"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."

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A.E. Samaan

"You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain."

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A.E. Samaan

"I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right."

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A.E. Samaan

"A lot of talented actors still have to pay their bills."

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A.E. Samaan

"I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director."

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A.E. Samaan

"I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Lost In Space movie. Doing this part is the highlight of my career. What a way to leave the profession!"

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A.E. Samaan

"I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality."

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A.E. Samaan

"For no. 1, it's great writing, super writing. The second thing is that it's great chemistry with all the actors. We just all got along from the very start. Very get-go, we all got along. We just - it was just like we were all meant to be there together."

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A.E. Samaan

"I've turned my guest house into this little studio, and we have actors come over and do readings."

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A.E. Samaan

"Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess."

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Douglas Sirk
"The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy."

Art

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Douglas Sirk
"Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands."

Body

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Douglas Sirk
"You have to think with the heart."

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Douglas Sirk
"I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart."

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Douglas Sirk
"These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition."

Optimism

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Douglas Sirk
"At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power."

Power

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Douglas Sirk
"Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on the picture. During shooting, Goldstein left, and Ross was most pleasant. He never interfered."

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Douglas Sirk
"So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less."

Art

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Douglas Sirk
"I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style."

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Douglas Sirk
"For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty."

Church

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