Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility. — 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
You know when somebody really knows what they're drawing from and you can feel it when you see the movie. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I'm pretty busy in my life and I'm very aware of what it takes to direct a movie. It takes a lot… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I thought Rounders was a comic movie in its way. First time I directed a movie, I wanted to do a comedy.… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
For me there's always a line or two in a script, when you hit it you almost decide to do the whole… — 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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