Edward Norton Quotes
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I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever.
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I do find myself drawn more to pieces that I feel are wrestling with the way that we're living now, what we're all going through.
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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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Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.
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It's a dream to be in a company of actors.
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If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack.
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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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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 like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.
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You can't control everything that comes to you.
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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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I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.
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I'm a New Yorker, you know.
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I think we really feel like Crowdrise could be something that, 20 years from now, people take for granted because that's just how you do it, like if you're going to raise money for something, that's how you do it.
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Well, I don't feel that I've played so many bad guys, and I'm rot really drawn to villains per se. I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.
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I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.
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I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more.
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I like music, but I need to get outside more.
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You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.
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I just love movies.
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The period western doesn't have a lot to say to most people today.
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Most of the films that I've ever really responded to are ones that I feel were really involved in their times.
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You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label.
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I don't get much out of doing a red carpet.