Edward Norton Questioned by Oxford University Students

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[@rollyknevels3570]

I met Edward Norton on a street corner once. It was New York City and he was with his family. I approached him and thanked him for his work. He said “thank you Rolly”. It was an example of genuine people bring anywhere and probably bring everywhere.

[@acrossbarrier]

Norton needs to be hit with more intellectual questions about art and filmmaking, he is the best kind of guest for these kinds of questions.

[@dhh488]

Music too.

[@savy6623]

Such a wonderful interview! It's always a pleasure to listen to that man speak.

[@jennifergargiulo4526]

I thought his performance in The Painted Veil was one of the best I've ever seen on screen, nuanced and powerful.

[@ciri_riannon235]

Yes that's my favorite movie from Edward

[@tarnopol]

I’ll have to check that one out.

[@phillipbishop7719]

It's a great movie!

[@saranzm2977]

I've known him since Red Dragon. Then went and watched his movies before and after. He is a great actor and I cannot put my finger on any movie that was not quality by him. At least in the ones I have a watched. :)

[@MonadNomad1988]

Fight Club was always one of those special movies you always have to go back to. It is perfect.

[@pappushaw9510]

Edward Norton will always come in the list of memorable actors because his fascinating selection of scripts followed by efforts he put for character portrayal. For Fight Club, he rehearsed more than a month just for suitable narration & voice tone. He is made for great projects. Whether Birdman, Primal Fear, American History X & the few more. He should do more projects across the movie & tv series industry. Love from India ❤🔥

[@shri081]

American History X man. His transformation from someone so menacing to someone so reformed,compassionate and empathetic within that role. And that heartbreak and pure desperation he displayed at the end. That film and role is and will always be relatable in every facet. When you are young, your environment will define you, no matter what. But what you make of it is your choice at the end. And your choices have consequences. That is a big big lesson I carry with me from his role and that film. It’s a remarkable piece of art.

[@pauldunkley760]

American History X is masterful. Watched it again recently

[@lynnturman8157]

What he said at the end about artistic endeavors is just amazingly profound. You live a life & you gain experience & you express that in your art. But then at some point you hit a wall. And then you decide to either continue rehashing what you've already expressed OR you decide to put your expression aside so that you can accumulate more experience & more living & let that take you where it will--into continuing to express yourself artistically or maybe not. Either way, the latter is infinitely harder & more challenging (and ultimately more interesting/rewarding) than the former.

[@xxxitadori]

I can't forget about Norton from his role as king baldwin , his calm and gentle voice still captivates me everytime ❤

[@thewealthofnations4827]

I liked Edward in Fight Club and American History X. When I found out much later after watching him in Kingdom of Heaven he was King Baldwin he has always been with me as one of the great actors of all time. He is teaching us something in his work. Not just entertaining us.

[@theoutsider6191]

Yeah, for sure on Fight Club and American History X, would also add that 25th Hour is a good performance 🙂

[@ciri_riannon235]

Edward is my favorite actor. I love the movies "The Illusionist" and "The Painted Veil". He's so talented, versatile, handsome, charming and I'm obsessed with his voice.

[@dhh488]

I like The Illusionist, one of my favorites as well.

[@balto20002]

I've always loved Norton - and being a Baltimore boy, I have enormous parochial interest. And I always knew he was smart. But I did not realize I'd be sitting here taking notes - he's giving me homework to do.

[@tedtalksrock]

Refreshing. An interlocutor worthy of the Oxford Union.

[@mdtys]

yale man

[@Apollo440]

I read "Norton *questioned* by Oxford" and I think: Huh, but where are the handcuffs? Nah, it's all a good joke. What a legend the guy is!

[@Mac-ku3xu]

The deep wisdom of a man who reads teleprompters and attends premieres. Life in kali yuga.

[@Alex0Etges]

great interview

[@phenomeninja1855]

I still have my Fight Club bar of soap from 1999!

[@timwright4263]

Edward should have been Oscar nominated for Mike Shiner in Birdman.

[@JENNIFERBOO]

I have to watch the graduate again with this new perspective 💯

[@theoutsider6191]

Still think American History X is one of his best roles. Serious, serious movie. Excellent breath in his performance of the role. And what is it with the public not getting David Fincher's films excellence immediately? Same thing happened with Shawshank Redemption, failure at box office, massive and regularly the top of best 500 movies of all time etc polls. I would add the Netflix series Mindhunter to this which is also not appreciated more widely, and is similarly excellent. Fincher is one of the great directors.

[@Lushy260]

What a great interview!!!!

[@redballoonluke]

That's brilliant about The Graduate.

[@joshuafisher4241]

Love the title of this clip can be interpreted quite ominously

[@benrosn8154]

This is awesome

[@ivangray5864]

Great actor, good person.

[@AmiUnhinged]

I have weirdly hot knees, excuse me. Thanks for coming to talk to us. It's useful to have a pragmatic perspective on work like this

[@ignaciogodoy7095]

When I see Fight Club for me was the pinacule of a true gifted acting talent

[@dbArt7]

One of the actors that truly deserves oscar.

[@guinnessharvey4476]

The first question was poorly researched. Other than that, lovely stuff and could listen to this dude for hours.

[@oller7113]

Extremely interesting thoughts from my favourite actor.

[@ravishankartj5749]

So difficult to believe that Primal Fear was his debut. He is just brilliant and speaks so well.

[@amalihomer7626]

Date?

[@TBTT-sx3ux]

Looking forward to this. Interesting man with many strings to his bow.

[@Trinidad-pt3dl]

Success 🤝

[@cynthiamarston2208]

Primal Fear he made it all so believable

[@NoiceyPwithBobbyV]

Interviewer blagging it

[@hristopopov7345]

Hey, isn't that Tyler durden?

[@user-yx7lq7pi8r]

Terrence Robert Todasco

[@miggity6666]

Want solid proof Norton is a GREAT actor? He wore a mask in Kingdom of Heaven and absolutely crushed it. Best actor in the film and you couldn't even see his face.

[@TheGava4]

Was he filming in the UK at the time of this interview? “Deadpool & Wolverine” ??

[@belialah]

American History X is a modern "Crime and Punishment".

[@dwmc1492]

He was so great in that. I still take it out and watch it periodically.

[@user-cq6ho4eu3z]

I was so hoping he was going to teach the aeronautics of catapulting and American history X

[@TimesThree333]

Still my favorite Bruce Banner.

[@AmiUnhinged]

I had an idea for like a next gen anticipation like , thrill spike . You know I was sat thinking about Hitchcock Strings, the other day I thought they'd been done to death. The sound track to Sinister for instance is mostly modern instruments, and the Silent Hill franchise has a sort of Celtic Horror Ambient speciality that sounds a bit like chilly fog is the thing, but that's not really what I mean. I thought it would be awesome if the suspense thriller fiction was like actually teams like in real life. You know, serial iillers might ask what nailvarnish you were wearing and thieves might ask what you were driving but in real life cons are allergic to cops like E311 food additives. Then the story could progress like an antagonistic story of two competing plotlines. You know in chess you have to wait for the other team to move before you go and if they take you by surprise you might drastically rearrange your strategy. So the cop team submit their gambit to the production company, then the baddies respond but they're not allowed to confer.

[@searabeara5328]

When I saw fight club for the first time in 2000, I was obsessed

[@dominicwood3750]

Birdman he’s the GOAT

[@ricardocuna-xh3qv]

if i had a writing partner wed exceed cause i just cant do it on my own

[@awdat]

35:51

[@dr.paroczipeter838]

The Narrator. How I love this guy. Uhhhhh.

[@mrp8811]

i am not ashamed to say i feel jealous at not having access to oxford professors

[@lynnhubbard844]

the student moderator trying too hard, constantly saying, "yeah", "uh hmmm"...interrupting him without comprehending. He is not having a conversation with her.

[@user-KG71]

He is an amazing actor. I saw him act 1st in Primal Fear, and thought to myself, Wow! And American History X was an Important film, and simply can’t think of any other actor playing Derek 👏🏼 👏🏼

[@JamesJoyce12]

A Yale dude just as Matt Damon is a Harvard dude - tell me again the Ivy's don't attract the best and the brightest.

[@domchadwick7170]

Wow. This is surprisingly dull.

[@decencywarrior9598]

balls he got blue eyes too.

[@kforest2745]

The channel says Oxford Univ promotes free speech that’s a shocker. I’d need a look at the year 1823 and its founders.

[@williamkelly1519]

Never knew Norton was on the path. Impressive.

[@kfc_bucket5172]

what path?

[@Mehri-zm8rs]

Edward Norton is an amazing actor

[@AmiUnhinged]

No really, I'm the worst person to ask about Oxbridge University, because when I was at school (I actually did a couple of years on a NHS credited course in my local city) someone made a joke about graduating from a degree in philosophy and going to work at McDonald's which was as popular as broccoli flavoured beer. I'm from the neighbourhood Led Zeppelin grew up in and basically I can spy a lead balloon a mile off, and that was a doozy. And of course people do this "Wow, Oxford University, that's a name that opens doors" right? To *where* huh? I have to know. And, to graduate on a scholarship you have to work like a dog,and everyone treats you like your ears were a whingeing bin, and it was clean and ready for fresh Spoiled Brat to find you not perky or trendy or a doctor in Chinese genetic engineering enough. I'd love a free degree right? But I'd also love a tech college degree. Oxford degrees are like a free ride on an elephant, but republican secular college is like a icar. At the tech conference, Are you cheating on Oxford University? And I can't resolve it. I'm a comedian, and I live in a town called Jokeyville, so I asked a sagacious elder what to say. He said "But what if he comes at us with a pointed stick?" (Monty Python) I did not feel confident enough to aver that nobody would.

[@audrey04021]

Much as I love Edward Norton, I have difficulty listening to people edit as they speak ... seems the sentences never finish and the point takes a while to be made.

[@richardjones2189]

I think taking a while for the point to be made is a good thing. It shows that he's really thinking about his answer and wants it to be as truthful and sincere as possible.

[@twittertwice]

Then go watch something else

[@priapushk996]

Yeah I have the same problem. It's a perfectionism of a sort.

[@AmiUnhinged]

I hate The Graduate. I remember this beautiful sunny afternoon at my dad's house when I watched Cruel Intentions (Ryan Philipe and Resse Witherspoon). When The Graduate was filmed, Marla Singer was "Nie Blanc". I find it hard to trust elder generations. I remember the old Capitol Hill Monument debate right: is it that there's a radio transmitter at the top of the needle. And the older photos had this weird exposure like hyper contrast, I'm sat there like *whisper* "is it that there's zombies just out of the frame? Who could ever tell?" I hate Neitczhe, I think it's another phase of the palm-off. Nothing matters so: what? There's no point in living if nothing has any meaning. It's almost the archetype of the idiocracy. I understand classicism , I appreciate value but what I liked about Fight Club was it didn't take itself so seriously.

[@twittertwice]

get help

[@AmiUnhinged]

Actually, I was just story boarding a treatment called Polly's Nation about subliminal pheramomal cues of viral strains of HIV in high-school, particularly among anorexics and homeless people. I remember when I was young "Polly Says" by Nirvana was this really important commentary about feminine helplessness and voicelessness in modern cynical masculinity. I remember thinking as I grew up that half the people I thought were dead certs for the old white wedding had split up, huh so why did they even get together? Unless they didn't, but the virus was singing to itself across the pheramonal spectrum, and everything anyone said or did was window dressing to amoebic porn prerogative. Anyway, it might be a doomy misery w*nk, but it had this great dance

[@adamgrimsley2900]

Thank god for actors opinions

[@christianebers]

🙂🙂

[@AmiUnhinged]

I used to have nightmares about old Apartheid housing estates in Africa. You know in Face/Off Castor Troy jokes that he can't distinguish the houses since they're all the same except for the road signs right? Well the old Apartheid design is very anonymous. Anyway, i'm riding a bike down this deserted suburban road in a lovely warm sunset and everything seems so peaceful, except i noticed everyone went out without covering their pools to protect them from bugs and leaf-drop . So i turn a corner and there's this huge stone coliseum like ancient Rome and inside is everyone in the whole town, and it says on the neon sign outside that they're all watching the football. Except they aren't. Everyone is dead in a bloody pile in the middle of the soccar pitch and at the end of the row, is a pile of brand new digital encoded driving licences, laser car keys and smart watches. Even the rings that measure your heart rate: all of it. Because guess what? I didn't check the road sign on ths way through and it says "Valhalla" on it. And nobody ever lived a month in any of the houses. And after the bodies get dumped inthe giant sewer (Johannesburg famously had a sewer twice as tall as a grown man) they prep the new brochure on the stolen colour printers and laminators to do it again. And it sort of represents a proper dilemma for me: is it better if no-one knows where you are, or every body? Is big brother your most treasured utility or the fake evolution that leads to slavery? I had another nightmare later fabout a Hacktivist University, and they were so cool they only had a symbol like Prince. Like ⛎️. And they get paid in percentages of bitcoin for brand new totally radical trendy things. Except, because they're sort of the Geist that follows the Ziet (they're the phantom of the novelty) they accidentally do a lot of dumb things like "Versus degree:Totally Moh's Value Clash- Tunnel Builders versus Encrypters. Chefs versus fashion designers. Rap Music versus engineering." It it was the most annoying thing *on the planet*

[@learnearn1728]

Hello ffrom nepal 💯🇳🇵

[@tarnopol]

Fight Club is a great film but aspects of it are troubling, especially the whole fascistic manosphere angle which I *think* is undermined at the end. I mean, one can hate aspects of the modern world without having to go all violent-fascistic about it.

[@mrp8811]

the most jammiest children in the world. I hope t least one of them appreciate what they have at their finger tips.

[@j.m.436]

I do not get his comparison of The Graduate with Fight Club at all… Elaine is Marla? Huh? Fight club is a fun film but somewhat trite? And cynical.

[@user-yf8zt6sz9n]

"That's the best film we'll ever be in" Brad Pitt ~ and then Snatch came along. Oops!

[@User-ei7eo]

I love snatch but it’s not a patch on fight club you maniac

[@ednorton47]

So, this guy works in a sewer too?

[@valboolin3538]

Тот который сгрыз бордюр

[@kfc_bucket5172]

Snoozefest

[@UltraCollagenBooster]

Be careful, he may start punching himself...

[@robertholik8300]

Did someone ask him why he is such an awful person?

[@NoosaHeads]

Not a good impromptu speaker. His acting skills are excellent - but he speaks in a halting, unconfident, and erratic manner.

[@priapushk996]

I have the same problem. I envy how impromptu speakers (I'm thinking of Walter Isaacson) nail it on the first take.

[@SimDeck]

Boring bell end.

[@georgemalley6414]

I don't care what a Hollywood Actor says. They say exactly and only what their Hollywood Owners tell them.

[@hilalyigit6371]

Free free palestine

[@tartufo4870]

Dude the world is crying 😭 ...⚠️⚠️⚠️❓️❓️❓️come on weak up 😴🤒🤢 to egocentric.

[@AnthonyL0401]

Wtf dude? Get off the drugs lol

[@trashmesoftsoft]

Hey lady, nice shoes 😊 Ed aging fine as usual. But showing early signs of Parkinson's?

[@TheManInTheLongBlackCoat]

… what? 🤨

[@mystmuffin3600]

you're a creep

[@ciri_riannon235]

What are you talking about?? Are you joking or what? Edward is extremely brilliant and with a clear mind. Why are you being so offensive and disrespectful?

[@trashmesoftsoft]

@ciri_riannon235 spent any time with Parkinson's patients, if ever? Early signs are there, or he is on a stimulant. Fortunately, Parkinson's doesn't discriminate against those who lack intelligence or have an ill-tempered disposition, so you're still fully eligible 🤗

[@twittertwice]

who are you people? if this were a Rorschach test… you fail