Edward Norton

Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways.

— Edward Norton

I just like working with smart people.

— Edward Norton

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

— Edward Norton

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

— Edward Norton

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

— Edward Norton

It's a dream to be in a company of actors.

— Edward Norton

It's nice when someone knows their lines.

— Edward Norton

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

— Edward Norton

Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies.

— Edward Norton

A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.

— Edward Norton

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

— Edward Norton

I like things that aren't superficially one thing or another.

— Edward Norton

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

— Edward Norton

I think technology is having a democratising effect on film.

— Edward Norton

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

— Edward Norton

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

— 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…

— 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,…

— 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…

— Edward Norton

I knew Danny DeVito and he knew me, so he wanted me to try Death to Smoochy. I loved that stuff and…

— Edward Norton

I grow tired of intelligence having such a limited manifestation in movies - "intelligence" usually meaning coastal, with a certain level of…

— Edward Norton

Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of…

— Edward Norton

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

— Edward Norton

I start to get fixated on a story and a character and an idea, and at a certain point, I really want…

— Edward Norton

When I was very small, I had that first-time-you-see-a-play experience, which immediately made me want to act, because it seemed like this…

— Edward Norton

The "environmental movement" is becoming an economic movement, is joining the social justice movement, is becoming a sustainability movement. It's leaving behind…

— Edward Norton

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

But work that's got real substance does make people feel, "There's someone else out there who relates to my experience, or who…

— Edward Norton

What has always been most interesting about acting to me personally is that it affords you the chance to shift gears, both…

— Edward Norton

To cite my own alma mater, it's shocking to me that Yale University can teach what it teaches at the Yale School…

— Edward Norton

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

I come from a family of conservation activists, and so I've had a strong connection to nature all my life. My father…

— Edward Norton

As an actor, if you step to the side and you look at [Thornton's performance] technically, and you try to imagine doing…

— Edward Norton

I'd say that, in addition to actually taking my brother and sister and I camping and hiking and river rafting all our…

— Edward Norton

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

In a very philosophic sense I think doing the work is itself a good thing. But at the end of the day,…

— 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,…

— Edward Norton

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

David Fincher is probably the best comprehensive director in terms of being a manger of a process that must drive forward. He…

— Edward Norton

There are so many people who are conscientious and caring about others. I've spent time working in countries where I really noticed…

— Edward Norton