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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.
Edward Norton
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Edward Norton
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 18
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I think technology is having a democratising effect on film.
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As an actor, I don't have any politics. As an actor, I'm driven more by an authentic - I would say an obsessive-compulsive-disorder level-fixation on mimicry, tonality of voice, to literally imitate something until I can just disappear into it.
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Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors.
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