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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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"The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you."

"We want the best actor, and that's why Matt Damon worked so well in this role, because he's a great actor."

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"I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor."

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"If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason."

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"At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political."
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