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
You dream as an actor's director of letting moments breathe through two-shots. — 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
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
The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made. — 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
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
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
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
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
David Fincher is probably the best comprehensive director in terms of being a manger of a process that must drive forward. He… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions. — 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 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
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
![“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 was doing, most people would panic. Most people would be on the set, and they would be panicking, going, "I'm not doing anything!" All the ham instincts in you would be…” quote by Edward Norton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f09/edward-norton-2203_actors_as-an-actor-if-you-step-to-the-side-and_15751.jpg)
