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I'm a fan of Ernest Hemingway work and specifically The Old Man and the Sea. I researched the relationship he had with the captain of his boat for 20 years, Gregorio Fuentes, and that inspired me to write a screenplay about it.

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Andy Garcia
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: April 12
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Andrés Arturo García Menéndez
Andres Arturo Garcia Menendez
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Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing.
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I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.
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Fidel Castro claimed that history would absolve him, but it can also condemn him.
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Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself.
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