Edward Norton Quotes
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Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.
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When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want.
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In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.
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Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.
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All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.
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Young people know how to use these social networking tools, and they know how to use them effectively.
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You never make all things for all people and can't always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do they move me? Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something that is provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me.
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I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school.
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I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass.
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I tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I'm looking at an individual piece.
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When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script.
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I'm a New Yorker, you know.
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The people who work in the scientific field, they need help to convey what it's about.
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I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.
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If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack.
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The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made.
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I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more.
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People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest.
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I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.
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I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.
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I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.
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The period western doesn't have a lot to say to most people today.
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I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it was all wheat fields? Can you imagine what John Steinbeck saw?
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People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.