Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies. — 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
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
But look at Avatar (2009), one of the most globally viewed pieces of entertainment to have ever been made - the central… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
There is a lot of interesting product coming to market already. Bags and bottles and cups and such made of potato starch… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
If you've got a piece and you can feel the person who's going to direct it is really made for it, if… — 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
The elegance of staying with a moment, without needing to stop and change all the lighting, made [the alternative] seem lazy and… — 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
