Once You Work With A Studio On A Film, The Studio Is Sort Of Like This Enormous Clam That Just Opens, Takes Everything And Then Closes, And No One Enters Again. They Own It All.

-Don Bluth

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Once You Work With

Don Bluth

Once You Work With A Studio On A Film, The Studio Is Sort Of Like This Enormous Clam That Just Opens, Takes Everything And Then Closes, And No One Enters Again. They Own It All.

Topic

Film

Clams

Enormous

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