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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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" Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people. "

Edward Norton

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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. "

" 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? "

" You can't control everything that comes to you. "

" Young people know how to use these social networking tools, and they know how to use them effectively. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways. "

" I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions. "

" The period western doesn't have a lot to say to most people today. "

" I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more. "

Edward Norton

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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. "

" It's a dream to be in a company of actors. "

Edward Norton

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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. "

" I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another. "

" It's nice when someone knows their lines. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience. "

" Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful. "

" The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert. "