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My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.

Gaspar Noe

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Gaspar Noe
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: October 17
Director
Non-Fiction Writer
Soldier
Port Arthur
Texas
Wrong
Lost
Heroic
Ends
Mostly
Character
Opening
Find
Door
Right
Characters
Trying
Doors
Never
Open

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