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.
The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions. - Edward Norton
The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.
- Edward Norton
It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing. - Edward Norton
It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.
I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be. - Edward Norton
I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.
At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really. - Edward Norton
At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.
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… - Edward Norton
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…
Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced. - Edward Norton
Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.
There are so many people who are conscientious and caring about others. I've spent time working in countries where I really noticed the absence of ci… - Edward Norton
There are so many people who are conscientious and caring about others. I've spent time working in countries where I really noticed the absence of ci…
Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way. - Edward Norton
Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.
I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions. - Edward Norton
I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions.
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