Edward Norton
b'For the past 25 years, Edward Norton has established himself as one of the greatest actors in his generation. His legacy includes roles in films like\\xa0Primal Fear,\\xa0American History X,\\xa0Fight Club, and\\xa0Birdman\\xa0to name a few, and he\\u2019s the type of artist who constantly seeks to challenge himself. Take his new film\\xa0Motherless Brooklyn, which he wrote, directed, and stars in. The noir-esque film is an incredible achievement for Edward, and it\\u2019s a direct product of all of his years of hard work and experience in the industry.For Edward, being an artist is more of a compulsion than a mere desire. As he says, \\u201cMost of us are one or two degrees away from obsession tipping over into a true condition and affliction. That\\u2019s how I feel about acting and writing.\\u201d Luckily, Edward has a creative place to put that obsession, and that creativity was inspired by the work of musicians like Bob Dylan and David Bowie when Edward was a teenager. The resounding message was: \\u201cThe freaks are who you want to hang with.\\u201d So, Edward sought to find his own tribe of like-minded, creative people. It\\u2019s through that band of people that Edward got his first big role, and it also helped him fund and cast\\xa0Motherless Brooklyn.\\xa0As he says, \\u201cIf I\\u2019ve got any collateral via what I\\u2019ve done, why wouldn\\u2019t I try to do something else? Why wouldn\\u2019t I try to swing for a story that I think I understand and say something?\\u201dEdward joins\\xa0Off Camera\\xa0to talk about identifying with his underdog character in\\xa0Motherless Brooklyn, learning to put problems in perspective after his mother passed away, and why he has a hard time trusting anyone who actually enjoyed high school.'