Edward Norton Quotes
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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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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 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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Young people know how to use these social networking tools, and they know how to use them effectively.
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I don't get much out of doing a red carpet.
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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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I like things that aren't superficially one thing or another.
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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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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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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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If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack.
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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 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 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'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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The period western doesn't have a lot to say to most people today.
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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 making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.
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Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways.
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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.