Angelina Jolie never planned to become a director. It was just her desire initially. Then because of her desire to know more about the war in Yugoslavia, she become a director for her movie, In the Land of Blood and Honey.
She said, “What I really want to do is direct. I’ve always felt the responsibility because it was my generation, and it was one that I didn’t understand enough and learn enough about, and we had such a delayed intervention,”
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She said, “What I really want to do is direct. I’ve always felt the responsibility because it was my generation, and it was one that I didn’t understand enough and learn enough about, and we had such a delayed intervention,”
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