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I do like to work with young directors because it's such a difficult business that I think after directors have been around a while sometimes, not always, but sometimes their passion gets siphoned off because they get hurt.

Ellen Burstyn

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Ellen Burstyn
Age: 91
Born: 1932
Born: December 7
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Detroit
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Edna Rae Gillooly
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