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"First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on."
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"Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?"
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