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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.

Edward Norton

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Edward Norton
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 18
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Edward Harrison Norton
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Any questions I had about whether a redneck from Oklahoma could become a Brown Classical Philosophy professor ended when I met Tim [Blake Nelson].
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I think technology is having a democratising effect on film.
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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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Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.
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As we say in the sewer, time and tide wait for no man.
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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 don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.
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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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To me, Fight Club was a comedy. When [David] Fincher sent me the book and I read it, the first thing I asked him was, This is a comedy, right? he said, Yeah, that's the whole point, and I said, Okay, I'm in. I certainly wasn't imagining myself as a dramatic actor when I was running around in my underwear in that film.
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I'm pretty busy in my life and I'm very aware of what it takes to direct a movie. It takes a lot out of you it takes a lot out of the rest of your life, from other people in your life. I don't lie around hungering for that consumption very often.
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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've observed over and over that people seem to get a much deeper sense of fulfillment out of something they've done as an act of service than out of the things they do for themselves.
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You can't control everything that comes to you.
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If there's a criteria that really gets me interested in a work besides any type of personal interaction with the theme, it's if I feel like this is the right piece of work for that director at that moment in their career.
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People say you can't make movies about your politics or the environment. And, generally speaking, I completely divide those sides of my brain.
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I thought Rounders was a comic movie in its way. First time I directed a movie, I wanted to do a comedy. I don't like things that are superficially one thing or another, mainly. My favorite comedies are really smart, too, and have a lot of levels to them as well.
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My greatest hope is that we transcend the most fearful thing, which is that we are rapidly degrading the ecological systems on this planet that support everything we are doing and all life on it.
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A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.
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