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Mako

"I go into a young film director's office these days and he says, 'Hey man, I know who you are. I grew up watching 'McHale's Navy'. And I think, 'Oh boy, here we go again'."

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"I go into a young film director's office these days and he says, 'Hey man, I know who you are. I grew up watching 'McHale's Navy'. And I think, 'Oh boy, here we go again'."

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A.E. Samaan

"My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture."

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A.E. Samaan

"Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them."

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A.E. Samaan

"We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry."

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A.E. Samaan

"The Witch film, was one suspensed and good made one, it could be well made with some more victims... But..."

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A.E. Samaan

"To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another."

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A.E. Samaan

"I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera."

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A.E. Samaan

"Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee."

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A.E. Samaan

"I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment."

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A.E. Samaan

"I met Milos in 1967. I was working on a student film. And there is Milos Forman. So that's how I met Milos."

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A.E. Samaan

"Daffy, of course, wants to go on the journey with him but the studio decides they want Daffy back, so Bugs and a young studio executive heroine have to go out and try to bring him back."

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Mako
"I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, "Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts.""

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Mako
"I go into a young film director's office these days and he says, 'Hey man, I know who you are. I grew up watching 'McHale's Navy'. And I think, 'Oh boy, here we go again'."

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Mako
"Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain."

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Mako
"No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act."

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Mako
"I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time."

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Mako
"I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called "A Banquet for the Moon." It was a weird play."

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