I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Most of the films that I've ever really responded to are ones that I feel were really involved in their times. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
For Keeping the Faith, I looked at [George ] Cukor's old films like The Philadelphia Story, stuff that's hilariously funny and really… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
If you try to make interesting films, you're going to be disappointed most of the time. I choose just not to look… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Most of the movies that I've made that I really felt good about and cared about made very little money anyway, so… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
If there's a criteria that really gets me interested in a work besides any type of personal interaction with the theme, it's… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
With Edward Norton you'd never say, "This is the one we're going with whether you like it or not." It has to… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
People say you can't make movies about your politics or the environment. And, generally speaking, I completely divide those sides of my… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks that Fight Club is a very important and successful film, but it was a massive box-office failure. Massive. It was… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I think it's a total fallacy for people to say, "You couldn't make those old movies today." I think there's more ways… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label. There's like, 18 different independent film-financing… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I've never acted before in a movie I've directed. This felt like the time to do it just because the " Leaves… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
When I think about directing a film, the thing that stops me short is wondering if I'm a natural at it the… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
To me, achieving tone, achieving consistency, is exactly the job of a director. It is to be the fusing, the nexus of… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
When I'm looking for Zen and I'm not saying this facetiously at all - I would really rather surf, scuba dive, or… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
When I look at the directors that I really love, who really develop their films over time, they're almost always the ones… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
If Nick Broomfield never found anyone with affection for Courtney Love, it's only because he conspicuously avoided the countless friends, colleagues and… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
If you try to make interesting films, you're going to be disappointed most of the time. I choose just not to look… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Making really great music, making really great films, writing great books is an antidote to all of that. And, as people, as… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
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.… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
But at the same time, the film industry just got torched. The risk tolerance for the types of movies we're talking about… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
What we set out to do with this movie [Leaves of Grass] was to create something that was funny and serious and… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
To me, Fight Club was a comedy. When [David] Fincher sent me the book and I read it, the first thing I… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I don't feel insecure about any of this work anymore. Maybe I don't have what I had when I was younger. I'm not really… — Edward Norton Copy Share
As an actor, if you step to the side and you look at [Thornton's performance] technically, and you try to imagine doing what he… — Edward Norton Copy Share
The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit. — Edward Norton Copy Share
My greatest hope is that we transcend the most fearful thing, which is that we are rapidly degrading the ecological systems on this planet… — Edward Norton Copy Share
David Fincher is probably the best comprehensive director in terms of being a manger of a process that must drive forward. He has such… — Edward Norton Copy Share
Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors. — Edward Norton Copy Share
The thing I'm absolutely convinced of, no matter how crazy - technological the world is getting, is that people feel more connected through the… — Edward Norton Copy Share
Making really great music, making really great films, writing great books is an antidote to all of that. And, as people, as artists, some… — Edward Norton Copy Share
I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever. — Edward Norton Copy Share
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… — Edward Norton Copy Share
To cite my own alma mater, it's shocking to me that Yale University can teach what it teaches at the Yale School of Environmental… — Edward Norton Copy Share
I had a huge advantage with Edward Norton because he's directed a movie before, so one thing he appreciates is how hard my job… — Edward Norton Copy Share
![“For Keeping the Faith, I looked at [George ] Cukor's old films like The Philadelphia Story, stuff that's hilariously funny and really smart with a cutting critique in the humor, too. With this, when I read it, I was laughing a lot.” quote by Edward Norton](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d16/edward-norton-2203_critique_for-keeping-the-faith-i-looked-at-george_670018.jpg)
![“What we set out to do with this movie [Leaves of Grass] was to create something that was funny and serious and had large tonal ambitions. A movie that could be poignant and funny, and suddenly quite violent. To have a character utterly sideswiped, and to learn that life is about balance.” quote by Edward Norton](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/286/edward-norton-2203_ambition_what-we-set-out-to-do-with-this-movie-le_2503986.jpg)
![“To me, Fight Club was a comedy. When [David] Fincher sent me the book and I read it, the first thing I asked him was, "This is a comedy, right?" he said, "Yeah, that's the whole point," and I said, "Okay, I'm in." I certainly wasn't imagining myself as a dramatic actor when I was running around in…” quote by Edward Norton](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5ec/edward-norton-2203_actors_to-me-fight-club-was-a-comedy-when-david_2837192.jpg)
