The Green Quote: When Edward Norton Met Barack Obama
Filed under: film-tv, movies — Michael d'Estries @ 4:19 pm
November 3rd 2009
“I met him first in the winter of 2005-06. I’m involved very heavily with an organization that is one of the biggest developers of affordable housing, a nonprofit affordable housing developer, and it’s an organization that has contributed a lot to developing housing policy. So we often will have sessions with new senators and stuff like that, and I helped orchestrate a meeting with him and his housing staff and this organization, so that was the first time I met him. Which was nice, because we got to engage on a subject that was interesting to both of us, and I think he was able to meet me in a context not having to do with wanting to make a film about him.”
– Edward Norton speaking in an interview on AintitCoolNews.com about his new documentary By The People: The Election of Barack Obama. The film premieres tonight on HBO.
In an age when unmitigated douchebaggery is celebrated, it’s nice to know Hollywood’s A List includes stars as thoughtful as Norton.