Edward Norton Quotes
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Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it's guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family.
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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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I don't get much out of doing a red carpet.
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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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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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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 tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I'm looking at an individual piece.
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Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.
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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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If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack.
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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'm a New Yorker, you know.
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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 grew up on the golden age of children's TV.
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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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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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People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest.
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The period western doesn't have a lot to say to most people today.
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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.
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The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.
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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.