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I wish I were more musically gifted, more intuitive in playing instruments.
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Edward Norton
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 18
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Edward Harrison Norton
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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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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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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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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 don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.
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To me, Fight Club was a comedy. When [David] Fincher sent me the book and I read it, the first thing I asked him was, This is a comedy, right? he said, Yeah, that's the whole point, and I said, Okay, I'm in. I certainly wasn't imagining myself as a dramatic actor when I was running around in my underwear in that film.
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If two people are at completely different stages in their spiritual life, that can present a real problem.
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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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The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.
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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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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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The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made.
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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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A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.
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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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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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I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school.
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If there's a criteria that really gets me interested in a work besides any type of personal interaction with the theme, it's if I feel like this is the right piece of work for that director at that moment in their career.
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I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.
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I just don't think most of us are aware how much of what we throw away ends up in the ocean, for starters. Plastic bags are among the worst. The US is actually falling behind the curve on that score. China and many other countries have already banned the production and use of thin plastic bags.
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