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![“Working with Robert, Robert [Elswit] is a storyteller. He's not a cinematographer, he's a storyteller. And to me, that's the graduation I hope to get to in my profession. That I'm not just an actor, I'm a storyteller. And I think that takes a long time in, when you have one job on a movie set…” quote by Jake Gyllenhaal](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b42/jake-gyllenhaal-2014_actors_working-with-robert-robert-elswit-is-a-s_3069036.jpg)
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