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If we don't keep people engaged, we're not going to move you. And if we move you, we've done something useful. That's what anybody who writes genre knows.

Akiva Goldsman

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Akiva Goldsman
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: July 7
Executive Producer
Film Director
Film Producer
Film Writer
Screenwriter
Television Director
Writer
New York City
New York
Akiva J. Goldsman
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