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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. "

Edward Norton

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I just love movies. "

" Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever. "

" You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with. "

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

" 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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