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The risk is that you furnish the project with new suggestions to try and freshen it up it's not always beneficial. You risk betraying the original intention with the story, forgetting what it is you really want to portray.
Lars von Trier
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Lars von Trier
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: April 30
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