"The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director."

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"The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director."

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"As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!"

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