Zitat des Tages von Edward Norton:
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.
You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.
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.
If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.
Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.
The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.
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.
Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.
It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.
I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.
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.
Most of the films that I've ever really responded to are ones that I feel were really involved in their times.
I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.
The period western doesn't have a lot to say to most people today.
I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.
I don't get much out of doing a red carpet.
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.
I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever.
The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made.
I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions.
I tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I'm looking at an individual piece.
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.
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.
I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.
Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.
I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.
A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.
