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My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.
Viggo Mortensen
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Viggo Mortensen
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: October 20
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I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't.
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