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I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.

- Edward Norton

Government, Proud, Almost, Forgot

I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.

- Edward Norton

Movies, Making, Sensibility

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

Shades, Like, Paradoxical, Contradictory

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

Imagine, San, Fernando, Wheat

I tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I'm looking at an individual piece.

- Edward Norton

Vision, Individual, Tend, Tunnel Vision

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

- Edward Norton

Magic, Better, Bubble, Disbelief

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

- Edward Norton

Children, Golden, TV, Golden Age

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.

- Edward Norton

Down, Blank, Then, Writes

I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.

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Interesting, Versus, Tend, Arc

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.

- Edward Norton

Doing, Anybody, Quickly, Fundraising

I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.

- Edward Norton

Through, Which, Films, Embedded

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

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Clearly, Another, Read, Scripts

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

Own, Idea, About, Supporting

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

- Edward Norton

Needs, Footprint, Films, Film Industry

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

- Edward Norton

Poker, Like, Avoided, Faced

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.

- Edward Norton

Out, Express, Fascinated, Frightened

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

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Think, Needs, I Think, 21st Century

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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Think, Making, Very, Banal

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

Some, I Think, Villains, Rot

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.

- Edward Norton

Achieve, About, Your, Disbelief

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

Think, Audience, I Think, Disbelief

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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Exercise, Thought, About, Represent

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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Doing, Run, Themes, All People

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.

- Edward Norton

Think, Average, I Think, Conversation

I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school.

- Edward Norton

I Remember, Going, Having, Scholarship

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

Feel, Years, I Think, Take For Granted

People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest.

- Edward Norton

Interest, Corporate, Which, Worried

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

Door, Always, Having, Key

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.

- Edward Norton

Some, Couple, Entitled, Budget

Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.

- Edward Norton

Against, Very, Corrosive, Strictly

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