You're always choosing the start point and the end point. And almost by definition, the most interesting period is where something happens,… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
The deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away. It's more challenging to me,… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
A lot of people ask, "What do you pull on in your own life from your character?" In all honesty, it's not… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I start to get fixated on a story and a character and an idea, and at a certain point, I really want… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I'm an actor, and, beyond that, the thing I do most compulsively is writing. So I come at it very much from… — 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
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
I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Remarkably, there's no green screen in 'Leaves of Grass' movie. There is motion control. Technically, there were all sorts of challenges, but… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — 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 Image
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 Image
It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
