Edward Norton
Edward Norton
Edward Harrison Nortonis an American actor, filmmaker and activist. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards for his work in the films Primal Fear, American History Xand Birdman. He also starred in other roles, such as Everyone Says I Love You, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Fight Club, Red Dragon, 25th Hour, Kingdom of Heaven, The Illusionist, Moonrise Kingdomand The Grand Budapest Hotel. He has also directed and co-written films, including his directorial debut, Keeping the Faith. He has...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth18 August 1969
CountryUnited States of America
I come from a family of conservation activists, and so I've had a strong connection to nature all my life. My father has been a leader within the movement for over thirty years and has taught most of what I know about environmental conservation. While he would always take me hiking, camping, and rafting, he also taught me that the spiritual value of the outdoors alone is not enough to save nature against economic interests.
I think it's pretty unequivocal, this character does not get off the hook for his actions on any level.
Lewis and Clark's expedition is as great a story as you could ever hope to tell, and like so many people, Brad and I have both been drawn to it for years, ... We both always agreed that compressing that story into a feature-length film ruined the spirit of it ... so we sat down and said, 'How can we really do this justice?'
In fact, the United States today keeps on making the same sort of mistakes,
Life, like poker, has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.
She's not just one of these kids who's very natural,
I ran into Brenda Blethyn on a plane going to London and I went, 'Oh, I'm going to get to see you again,' ... American History X.
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?
There was this one guy who used to come into this one club all the time, ... and he had these glasses and one of them had a bullet hole through it like it was shattered, and he never got it fixed in the months that I went into this place.
We must realize that nature is absolutely essential for our survival, and we must act on that premise now.
We are thrilled to be collaborating with Edward on this labor-of-love. They're a very daring company and have a great knack for communicating with audiences about challenging films.
The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.
Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.
The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.