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" I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert. "
Edward Norton
Expert
Myself
Conservation
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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. "
Edward Norton
Angry
Always
People
" 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
Business
Think
Done
" I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility. "
Edward Norton
Friends
People
Like
" 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. "
Edward Norton
Now
Money
Feel
" I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines. "
Edward Norton
Process
Which
Through
" 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. "
Edward Norton
Who
Ambiguity
Fun
" No, I'm not a very methodologically pure actor. "
Edward Norton
Pure
Actor
Very
" The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better. "
Edward Norton
Better
Create
Magic
" It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you. "
Edward Norton
Too Much
Better
People
" If I'm trying to put size on for a role, then I don't do much running. "
Edward Norton
Size
Much
Then
" Young people know how to use these social networking tools, and they know how to use them effectively. "
Edward Norton
Networking
Know
Young
" Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not. "
Edward Norton
Everyone
Western
Saying
" 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. "
Edward Norton
Remember
School
Kid
" I just love movies. "
Edward Norton
Love
Just
Movies
" I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles. "
Edward Norton
Inner
People
Some
" The people who work in the scientific field, they need help to convey what it's about. "
Edward Norton
Field
Who
People
" If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack. "
Edward Norton
Attack
Ever
Gonna
" Most of the films that I've ever really responded to are ones that I feel were really involved in their times. "
Edward Norton
Feel
Involved
I Feel
" You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label. "
Edward Norton
Independent
Label
You
" I do find myself drawn more to pieces that I feel are wrestling with the way that we're living now, what we're all going through. "
Edward Norton
Way
Now
Myself
" 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. "
Edward Norton
Feel
Struggles
People
" Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful. "
Edward Norton
Breakfast
You
World
" You can't control everything that comes to you. "
Edward Norton
You
Control
Everything
" The period western doesn't have a lot to say to most people today. "
Edward Norton
Period
Lot
Most
" The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions. "
Edward Norton
Any
Questions
Narrative
" I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever. "
Edward Norton
Old
Dramatic
Always
" Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways. "
Edward Norton
Many
Identical
Twins
" 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. "
Edward Norton
Enjoy
Acting
Free
" I just like working with smart people. "
Edward Norton
Smart People
Working
People
" It's nice when someone knows their lines. "
Edward Norton
Knows
Lines
Nice