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You dream as an actor's director of letting moments breathe through two-shots.

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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 don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.
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When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don't want to become one person because then you lose the person you are.
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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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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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It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.
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You know when somebody really knows what they're drawing from and you can feel it when you see the movie.
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I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it was all wheat fields? Can you imagine what John Steinbeck saw?
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Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against 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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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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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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The Zionist Tulsa Jew who's pugnacious is a reality. I grew up around it. And I think it's really, really funny and surprising and unlikely.
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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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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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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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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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I wish I were more musically gifted, more intuitive in playing instruments.
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If you feel like someone just knows what this is about to their core, they're going to have that special confidence in it.You stop looking at the seams and they start inhabiting the same space and start interacting with each .
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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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When I was very small, I had that first-time-you-see-a-play experience, which immediately made me want to act, because it seemed like this incredible outlet for something I was already doing fairly compulsively anyway, which was putting on hats and costumes and doing funny voices. It was a very natural compulsion for me.
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