I do find myself drawn more to pieces that I feel are wrestling with the way that we’re living now, what we’re all going through. – Edward Norton
Most of the films that I’ve ever really responded to are ones that I feel were really involved in their times. – Edward Norton
I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines. – Edward Norton
Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people. – 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
Instead of telling the world what you’re eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that’s meaningful. – Edward Norton
You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label. – 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
When you’re working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they’re pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want. – Edward Norton
I’m fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they’re actually feeling. Like when they’re frightened, they tend to freeze. When they’re angry, it doesn’t always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions. – Edward Norton
The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better. – Edward Norton
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. – Edward Norton
I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It’s just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it was all wheat fields? Can you imagine what John Steinbeck saw? – 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
Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn’t be avoided. It should be faced. – 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
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
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
I’ve always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You’re trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that’s about so you can represent it. – Edward Norton
I think we really feel like Crowdrise could be something that, 20 years from now, people take for granted because that’s just how you do it, like if you’re going to raise money for something, that’s how you do it. – Edward Norton
The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made. – Edward Norton
