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You dream as an actor's director of letting moments breathe through two-shots.
Edward Norton
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Edward Norton
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 18
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Boston
Massachusetts
Edward Harrison Norton
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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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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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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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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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Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.
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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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I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.
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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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I think technology is having a democratising effect on film.
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I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.
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Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.
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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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The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made.
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Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.
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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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My greatest hope is that we transcend the most fearful thing, which is that we are rapidly degrading the ecological systems on this planet that support everything we are doing and all life on it.
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I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass.
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It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.
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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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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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