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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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Edward Norton
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 18
Actor
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Environmentalist
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Boston
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Edward Harrison Norton
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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 think technology is having a democratising effect on film.
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As we say in the sewer, if you're not prepared to go all the way, don't put your boots on in the first place.
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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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Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.
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I wish I were more musically gifted, more intuitive in playing instruments.
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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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Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.
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Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.
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When I think about directing a film, the thing that stops me short is wondering if I'm a natural at it the way I think you, and PTA, and Fincher are born directors. Maybe some people's talent is in understanding the ways that film communicates, without dialogue, without plot.
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Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.
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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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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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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 don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.
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There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.
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