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When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want.

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Edward Norton
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 18
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Edward Harrison Norton
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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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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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I start to get fixated on a story and a character and an idea, and at a certain point, I really want to do it. It's a compulsion to explore a specific thing, as opposed to a compulsion to direct, generally speaking.
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I like to get into a lot of things besides movies. I've been very involved with a few specific efforts. We built this park in New York and it's been a very successful project... I worked on a conservation project in East Africa... Too much of this type of stuff can get you wrapped up in your own work and I love it.
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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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Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.
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I studied French forever, and when do I ever speak French? I clearly should have studied Spanish. I wish I had stuck with music, because that would still be great. I really wish I had learned to surf earlier in my life.
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The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made.
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People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest.
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I knew Danny DeVito and he knew me, so he wanted me to try Death to Smoochy. I loved that stuff and had a great time doing it.
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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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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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I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.
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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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I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.
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I'm a Tulsa Jew and I have a religious upbringing.
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You can't control everything that comes to you.
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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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Remarkably, there's no green screen in 'Leaves of Grass' movie. There is motion control. Technically, there were all sorts of challenges, but really the soul of it is Edward Norton talent. You write these characters when you write a movie, and all you can hope for or depend on is that your actors will elevate the material.
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