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Movies are about time. You can take that momentum and manipulate time as well, or you can deliberately slow it down, stop it, and start it again. There is no other art form that does that type of manipulation in that way.

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Danny Boyle
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: October 20
Film Director
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