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I'm not Akira Kurosawa. He used to write...He used to write a completely new spec script over a couple of nights. I'm not like that. It takes me a long time to put a film together that I want to make.
Duncan Jones
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Duncan Jones
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: May 30
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