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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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Edward Norton
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 18
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You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label. There's like, 18 different independent film-financing funds. In fact, I think the children of those films are getting made. A more interesting question is whether those films are going to get seen and appreciated.
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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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Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.
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The deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away. It's more challenging to me, but it's also just interesting. Those are the things I like to watch. I like to watch the evolutions of something.
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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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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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If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack.
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I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more.
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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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I hear about actors being exterior actors and actors being instinctual actors and I always think it's crap. Anybody who knows anything about it knows that good actors do both - they do inside-outward and they do outside-inward. You can't not do both.
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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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People say you can't make movies about your politics or the environment. And, generally speaking, I completely divide those sides of my brain.
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You dream as an actor's director of letting moments breathe through two-shots.
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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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You can do things in twin scenes now you couldn't before. You can implement actual moving cameras.
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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 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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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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I wish I were more musically gifted, more intuitive in playing instruments.
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