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Playboy.com: It's a cliché in the culture to say, Stop beating up on yourself. Well, Fight Club says, Start beating up on yourself.

Edward Norton: [Laughs] Exactly! I think that's such an important distinction. I don't think on any level there's anything in the film that's an espousal of the idea of aggression directed outward at others as a means of solving your problem. The fight club is a metaphor for it or is a gesture. It's inwardly directed violence. It's about making the radical gesture of stripping yourself of your own fears.

PB: Fight Club arrives in the middle of the fight about violence in movies.

Pitt: It's time for that debate. It's ripe for discussion. I just think films and art can get scapegoated. We have to separate this movie from a Jean-Claude Van Damme movie.

Norton: If you don't make art that is critical, then you've got a society in denial.... This film, whatever you want to take out of it, it's a very substantive and provocative critique of the dynamics that are going into creating certain kinds of feelings of people in our culture. I think it's a healthy and important discussion about violence in art. It's appropriate and important. We live in a violent culture. If you didn't make that kind of critical art out of fear of what would happen after it, Nabokov wouldn't have written Lolita because some old man might be inspired to go out and molest a young girl. And the Beatles shouldn't have written Helter-Skelter because Charlie Manson was there to misinterpret it.

PB: Ever get into a real fight?

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