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I thought all I had to do was to buy a camera and become a film director. So when I left school I worked at a telephone company, which gave me the money to buy the basic equipment including the camera, the projector and the screen.

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Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: September 3
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