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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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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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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Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.
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If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack.
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It's a dream to be in a company of actors.
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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 have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.
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You can't control everything that comes to you.
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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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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 like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.
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I'm a New Yorker, you know.
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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 just love movies.
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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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The period western doesn't have a lot to say to most people today.
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Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character he's playing.
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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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The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.