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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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Edward Harrison Norton
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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 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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As we say in the sewer, time and tide wait for no man.
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For me there's always a line or two in a script, when you hit it you almost decide to do the whole movie off a line or two. You almost do it for the fun of getting to say a line or two like that. I don't have any specific plans, you know. I mean, if Seth Rogen calls with a great buddy pic, I'll be there.
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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 don't think you should sit around and wait for people to give you an opportunity to express yourself or do your work, or whatever. Actors have to be producers and writers have to be producers.
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I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever.
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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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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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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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Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.
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The thing I'm absolutely convinced of, no matter how crazy - technological the world is getting, is that people feel more connected through the good works. Entertainment, and the sort of soporific effect it has on people and their stress, is one thing.
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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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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 think technology is having a democratising effect on film.
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You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.
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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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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.
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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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