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" I like music, but I need to get outside more. "
Edward Norton
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" I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles. "
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" My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s. "
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" I just like working with smart people. "
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" I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be. "
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" I like things that aren't superficially one thing or another. "
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" If you've got a piece and you can feel the person who's going to direct it is really made for it, if it's really special for them, then it's going to be a better-than-usual experience. "
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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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" It's a dream to be in a company of actors. "
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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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" The people who work in the scientific field, they need help to convey what it's about. "
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" Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it. "
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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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" 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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" People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest. "
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" I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another. "
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" It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you. "
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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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" It's nice when someone knows their lines. "
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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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" The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better. "
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" I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility. "
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" I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more. "
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" You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with. "
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" There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there. "
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" I think a lot of people in their average day actually imagine two sides of a conversation at one point or another. I think that the mental trick of holding two sides of a conversation in your head is actually something that we all do. "
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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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" You can't control everything that comes to you. "
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" Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people. "
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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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