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" You learn from everybody. "
Richard Linklater
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" Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here. "
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" I wrote a script - a script about a guy working on the automobile assembly line; I never could get money for that. I did a pilot about minimum wage workers for HBO that didn't get picked up; they thought it was depressing, even though it was a comedy. "
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