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Jesse James is like a Leonard Cohen song, I wanted to do something that was like a pop song.

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Andrew Dominik
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: October 7
Film Director
Screenwriter
Wellington
New Zealand
Song
Wanted
Something
Like
Cohen
Leonard
Jesse
James
Pops

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