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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. "
Edward Norton
Drama
Try
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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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" 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. "
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" 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? "
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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 I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack. "
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" I just like working with smart people. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm a New Yorker, you know. "
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" The period western doesn't have a lot to say to most people today. "
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Lot
Most
" Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it's guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family. "
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Friends And Family
Fun
School
" I don't get much out of doing a red carpet. "
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Red Carpet
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" Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity. "
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Complexity
Story
" 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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Am
Fan
" You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label. "
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Independent
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You
" 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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" 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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" I grew up on the golden age of children's TV. "
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" It's a dream to be in a company of actors. "
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Company
" At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really. "
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Point
My Life
" 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. "
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Sympathy
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" The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made. "
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" It's nice when someone knows their lines. "
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" Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced. "
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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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