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I wanted to do comic books... as a comic book artist, as an illustrator. But I'm not very good so I thought I should do something else! So I went to a film school when I was seventeen and came out when I was nineteen.

Gaspar Noe

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Gaspar Noe
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: October 17
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Non-Fiction Writer
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Port Arthur
Texas
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