Edward Norton Quotes:
Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it’s guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family.
Edward Norton
It’s dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.
Edward Norton
I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass.
Edward Norton
Look, you’ve got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it.
Edward Norton
I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions.
Edward Norton
I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.
Edward Norton
I don’t smoke and I don’t want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.
Edward Norton
You never make all things for all people and can’t always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do they move me? Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something that is provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me.
Edward Norton
I almost forgot what it’s like to be proud of my government.
Edward Norton
Well, I don’t feel that I’ve played so many bad guys, and I’m rot really drawn to villains per se. I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters’ inner struggles.
Edward Norton
I grew up on the golden age of children’s TV.
Edward Norton
Just because you’ve made a couple movies, you’ve done some good movies, you’ve been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody’s entitled. It’s a business. If they don’t see it, I can think they’re wrong, but I’m not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.
Edward Norton
When I’m the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I’ll call it my script.
Edward Norton
You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label.
Edward Norton
Instead of telling the world what you’re eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that’s meaningful.
Edward Norton
I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.
Edward Norton
Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people.
Edward Norton
I tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I’m looking at an individual piece.
Edward Norton
No, I’m not a very methodologically pure actor.
Edward Norton
There’s a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.
Edward Norton
I’m a New Yorker, you know.
Edward Norton