With the recent opening of the movie "Motherless Brooklyn," Daniel Riley interviewed actor/director Edward Norton in a piece the appeared in GQ.
Like all artists who strive to find their own creative path forward, Norton describes the challenges of executing his vision:
I don’t think it was different for Melville,” he says. “I don’t think it was different for Walt Whitman. Everybody who’s ever tried to communicate through work has struggled with the needs of the ego, and the higher aspirations toward patience and conviction that the work really is just enough.
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