Edward Norton Quotes

Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors.

Unpopular speech is absolutely vital to the health of our nation.

The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made.

The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit.

I think technology is having a democratising effect on film.

As we say in the sewer, if you're not prepared to go all the way, don't put your boots on in the first place.

Most of the movies that I've made that I really felt good about and cared about made very little money anyway, so I'm not particularly worried about people downloading and sharing them.

People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.

I don't think you should sit around and wait for people to give you an opportunity to express yourself or do your work, or whatever. Actors have to be producers and writers have to be producers.

Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.

You know when somebody really knows what they're drawing from and you can feel it when you see the movie.

I wish I were more musically gifted, more intuitive in playing instruments.

You can do things in twin scenes now you couldn't before. You can implement actual moving cameras.

I don't tend to say it's time for one of this or that genre. Things flow to you in a strange way, and why you bump into a certain kind of thing in one moment is...it's hard to explain.

I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school.

I just like working with smart people.

I knew Danny DeVito and he knew me, so he wanted me to try Death to Smoochy. I loved that stuff and had a great time doing it.

No, I'm not a very methodologically pure actor.

Most of what I know about environmental conservation I learned from my father, who has been a leader within the movement for over 30 years.

I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.

We must realize that nature is absolutely essential for our survival, and we must act on that premise now.

People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest.

Practiced poorly, tourism can be extremely negative.

I'm a New Yorker, you know.

Suspension of disbelief and that whole question is part of the heart of the 'Leaves of Grass'movie.

With Edward Norton you'd never say, "This is the one we're going with whether you like it or not." It has to be agreed upon.

If two people are at completely different stages in their spiritual life, that can present a real problem.

Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways.

You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label.

Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.

If I'm trying to put size on for a role, then I don't do much running.

I tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I'm looking at an individual piece.

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

I don't get much out of doing a red carpet.

I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.

If you try to make interesting films, you're going to be disappointed most of the time. I choose just not to look at it that way.

Any questions I had about whether a redneck from Oklahoma could become a Brown Classical Philosophy professor ended when I met Tim [Blake Nelson].

When you have a pipe salesman with a business called Macabee Pipes, I'd say you've got your tongue planted firmly in your cheek.

I never even considered comedy genre as something to embrace or move away from.

If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack.

I'm a Tulsa Jew and I have a religious upbringing.

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.