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" I have said no to many, many Day of the Dead projects in the past, about 10 or 15, because every time I heard a take it was from someone who didn't know the celebration. "
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" I would like to avoid dying if possible. I do like living! The worst, I think for me, though, would be a really bedridden death. "
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" I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing. "
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" I'm a book guy first, and my education came from two encyclopedias. One was an encyclopedia of health, so I became morbidly obsessed with anatomy, and I thought I had trichinosis, an aneurism, jaundice! And then an encyclopedia of art. "
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