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" I just like working with smart people. "
Edward Norton
Smart People
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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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" No, I'm not a very methodologically pure actor. "
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" I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert. "
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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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" The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made. "
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" I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government. "
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" The period western doesn't have a lot to say to most people today. "
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" I'm a New Yorker, you know. "
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You
" The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions. "
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Questions
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" 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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" I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles. "
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" You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label. "
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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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Looks
Out
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" Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity. "
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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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