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I think the East India Company represents what we would think of as a very modern approach to the world where everything was counted, every penny was counted.
Steven Knight
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Steven Knight
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: August 5
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No screenplay is possible, unless you get some attachment from somebody who's going to get it made.
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Whenever I see a cut of a film and something is gone, I don't notice it unless it obviously should have been kept.
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[Woman Walks Ahead] is from me being a very bizarre child. From the age of about 8 to the age of about 15, I was obsessed with Native Americans.
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