Edward Norton Quotes

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Edward Norton

Profession : Actor

Birth : August 18, 1969

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.

Edward Norton

You never make all things for all people and can't always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do they move me? Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something that is provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me.

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Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it's guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family.

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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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The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made.

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Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.

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People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.

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Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character he's playing.

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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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I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.

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Most of the films that I've ever really responded to are ones that I feel were really involved in their times.

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I think we really feel like Crowdrise could be something that, 20 years from now, people take for granted because that's just how you do it, like if you're going to raise money for something, that's how you do it.

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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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My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s.

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I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions.

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When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script.

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You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label.

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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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I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.

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I tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I'm looking at an individual piece.

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