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One of the reasons why I agreed to do commercials is that they gave me complete freedom. I just had to have the car in it and write a story around it. I wanted to do something serious set in a Latin American country, but again, it was an exercise in style for me.

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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 15
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