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I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

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Edward Norton
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 18
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Environmentalist
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Edward Harrison Norton
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Most of what I know about environmental conservation I learned from my father, who has been a leader within the movement for over 30 years.
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To cite my own alma mater, it's shocking to me that Yale University can teach what it teaches at the Yale School of Environmental Studies and utterly fail to mirror those values in any way in its investment practices.
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The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit.
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When I think of my background, if I was privileged on any level, it was in terms of the kind of exposure to experience and bohe-mian cultural influence that my parents and my uncles and my grandfather gave me. On both sides I come from an extremely eccentric, artsy, intellectually intense, activist family.
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If you try to make interesting films, you're going to be disappointed most of the time. I choose just not to look at it that way.
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I wish I were more musically gifted, more intuitive in playing instruments.
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You can't control everything that comes to you.
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Making really great music, making really great films, writing great books is an antidote to all of that. And, as people, as artists, some of the massive disruption that technology is causing is so exciting, the way that people can share creativity now.
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With Edward Norton you'd never say, This is the one we're going with whether you like it or not. It has to be agreed upon.
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When I was about 16 or 17, I had a teacher who took a group of us to the National Theater in Washington, D.C., and I saw Ian McKellen do his one-man show - I think it was called Acting Shakespeare - and it completely bombed me it put the zap on my brain in a big way.
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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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If two people are at completely different stages in their spiritual life, that can present a real problem.
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There are tens of thousands of charities and hundreds of thousands, getting towards millions, of people now using it. And when I flip through it, I'm just blown away by people.
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You know when somebody really knows what they're drawing from and you can feel it when you see the movie.
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I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.
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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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I think it's a total fallacy for people to say, You couldn't make those old movies today. I think there's more ways to get a movie made today than ever in the history of the entertainment industry. It's a very exciting time to work in movies, if you're a creative person looking to make a very personal, weird vision.
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I'm a Tulsa Jew and I have a religious upbringing.
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