Edward Norton quotes - page 3

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)
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. View quote
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Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not. View quote
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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. View quote
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When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want. View quote
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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. View quote
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I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films. View quote
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Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful. View quote
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I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility. View quote
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I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more. View quote
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Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition. (Edward Norton)