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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
Viggo Mortensen
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Viggo Mortensen
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 20
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My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about people and the world that are different from my own, sometimes radically different.
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