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" I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another. "
Edward Norton
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" Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it. "
Edward Norton
People
Parents
Relationship
" Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity. "
Edward Norton
Duality
Complexity
Story
" Young people know how to use these social networking tools, and they know how to use them effectively. "
Edward Norton
Networking
Know
Young
" You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with. "
Edward Norton
End
Strange
You
" You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label. "
Edward Norton
Independent
Label
You
" 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. "
Edward Norton
Think
Eye
Me
" I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles. "
Edward Norton
Inner
People
Some
" Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it. "
Edward Norton
Guard
Fame
You
" You can't control everything that comes to you. "
Edward Norton
You
Control
Everything
" The people who work in the scientific field, they need help to convey what it's about. "
Edward Norton
Field
Who
People
" 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? "
Edward Norton
Loss
Feeling
Flying
" 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've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it. "
Edward Norton
Empathy
Sympathy
Motivational
" I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert. "
Edward Norton
Expert
Myself
Conservation
" 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
" It's a dream to be in a company of actors. "
Edward Norton
Dream
Company
" It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing. "
Edward Norton
Government
See
Doing
" 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
" I don't get much out of doing a red carpet. "
Edward Norton
Doing
Red Carpet
Red
" Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people. "
Edward Norton
People
Think
Moving
" I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions. "
Edward Norton
Ask
Questions
Never
" No, I'm not a very methodologically pure actor. "
Edward Norton
Pure
Actor
Very
" It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you. "
Edward Norton
Too Much
Better
People
" I like things that aren't superficially one thing or another. "
Edward Norton
Another
Like
One Thing
" Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways. "
Edward Norton
Many
Identical
Twins
" The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better. "
Edward Norton
Better
Create
Magic
" 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
" People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest. "
Edward Norton
People
Starting
Which
" 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
" In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story. "
Edward Norton
Drama
Try
Think