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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 start to get fixated on a story and a character and an idea, and at a certain point, I really want to do it. It's a compulsion to explore a specific thing, as opposed to a compulsion to direct, generally speaking.
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The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made.
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Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.
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Well, I don't feel that I've played so many bad guys, and I'm rot really drawn to villains per se. I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.
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Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.
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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 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 like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.
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What has always been most interesting about acting to me personally is that it affords you the chance to shift gears, both in terms of the experiences you get to have through doing it, but also the different kinds of things you get to represent.
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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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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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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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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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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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You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label.
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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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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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You can do things in twin scenes now you couldn't before. You can implement actual moving cameras.
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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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When I think of my background, if I was privileged on any level, it was in terms of the kind of exposure to experience and bohe-mian cultural influence that my parents and my uncles and my grandfather gave me. On both sides I come from an extremely eccentric, artsy, intellectually intense, activist family.
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