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This episode takes us behind the scenes of director Edward Norton's new crime drama, Motherless Brooklyn. Based on the novel by Jonathan Letham, the film follows Lionel Esrog, a private

detective with Tourette's syndrome, who uncovers a web of corruption in 1950s, New York, while investigating the murder of his mentor.

In addition to Motherless Brooklyn, Mr. Norton's other directorial credit includes the feature film Keeping the Faith.

Following a recent screening of the film at the DGA Theatre in Los Angeles, Mr. Norton spoke with director

Mike Bender about filming Motherless Brooklyn. Listen on for their spoiler-filled conversation.

Hey, congratulations. Thank you. I got to say, I love this movie. It's the best compliment

I could give you is I wish I made it.

It's one of those movies I just go, God, I wish I did that one.

But, man, that's a lot of work.

That's a lot of work, you know.

How many days did it take you to shoot that movie?

Well, I know what it should have taken, but we had 46, which was not enough. Not enough.

We got it done, though.

We shot it independently.

You know, we made the film independently.

So we were able to, you know, we worked in New York

under an indie contract and stuff like that.

And, but I had, you know, Dick Pope shot the film.

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