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When I saw The Matrix and other movies of this type, I wished I had been given the opportunity to express myself with all this technology and do something sort of big in scale, but the right material never really came my way.
Michel Gondry
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Michel Gondry
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 8
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