"I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more.“

-Edward Norton

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

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"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."

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