Photo of Edward Norton in Motherless Brooklyn
Edward Norton in Motherless Brooklyn

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Edward Norton on building a smart workspace for filmmakers

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Published on November 01, 2019

Making a film is a complicated act of orchestrated teamwork. Trying to make a movie in New York in under 50 days? That’s the kind of challenge few filmmakers want to take on.

Directions drawn on a photo embedded in Dropbox Paper

"You have to bring everybody into this incredible mindshare together."

Alec Baldwin and Edward Norton in Motherless Brooklyn
Photo of Alec Baldwin and Edward Norton in Motherless Brooklyn
Norton working on a shot plan for Motherless Brooklyn in Dropbox Paper

"We created a communication workspace. I know it sounds like hardly the most innovative thing to people who are in technology spaces. In filmmaking, it's still shockingly new.”

Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Edward Norton in Motherless Brooklyn
Photo of Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Edward Norton in Motherless Brooklyn

"When we told them we'd done the film in under 50 days, people were just incredulous.”