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I hate those live action versions of animated cartoons. It ruins everything, the whole point of cartoons is to get away from photographs. I mean it would be stupid to say that cartoons are better than photographs but its true.

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Jim Jarmusch
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: January 22
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Cuyahoga Falls
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