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Sometimes directors will hire you and say, 'Oh, we love your work.' And then they start to tell you how to do it. I say, 'Hey, man, back off. You hired me to do it. Let me do it.'
Robert Duvall
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Robert Duvall
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 5
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Robert Selden Duvall
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