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
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
You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label. — 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions. — 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
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 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
![“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/quotes/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/quotes/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/quotes/img-quotes/5ec/edward-norton-2203_actors_to-me-fight-club-was-a-comedy-when-david_2837192.jpg)
![“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)
