It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
If two people are at completely different stages in their spiritual life, that can present a real problem. — 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
Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
But work that's got real substance does make people feel, "There's someone else out there who relates to my experience, or who… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I think we really feel like Crowdrise could be something that, 20 years from now, people take for granted because that's just… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people in their average day actually imagine two sides of a conversation at one point or another.… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I don't think you should sit around and wait for people to give you an opportunity to express yourself or do your… — 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
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
The thing I'm absolutely convinced of, no matter how crazy - technological the world is getting, is that people feel more connected… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
The "environmental movement" is becoming an economic movement, is joining the social justice movement, is becoming a sustainability movement. It's leaving behind… — 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… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I'd say that, in addition to actually taking my brother and sister and I camping and hiking and river rafting all our… — 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 think one of the most important investments an organization like TNC [The Nature Conservancy] can make is in helping build local… — 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
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
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
I think the consensus among our generation and people younger than us is that we do have a defining challenge in the… — 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
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
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
There are tens of thousands of charities and hundreds of thousands, getting towards millions, of people now using it. And when I… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don't want… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
This place [USA] is exploding with young people who are - they're like Nietzsche's hammer - going to break everything and make… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
You never make all things for all people and can't always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I've observed over and over that people seem to get a much deeper sense of fulfillment out of something they've done as… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
It's ginned up by the corporate plutocracy as a way of distracting the working-class people that it's screwing. We hamstring our own… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Most of us still believe in the intrinsic value of nature, but I think the first century of the environmental/conservation movement demonstrated… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
There are so many people who are conscientious and caring about others. I've spent time working in countries where I really noticed… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Young people know how to use these social networking tools, and they know how to use them effectively. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
The people who work in the scientific field, they need help to convey what it's about. — 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)
![“I'd say that, in addition to actually taking my brother and sister and I camping and hiking and river rafting all our lives and introducing us to the power of natural landscapes, his [my father's] biggest impact on my thinking has been to always argue that the "spiritual case for Nature" was not…” quote by Edward Norton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d5b/edward-norton-2203_arguing_i-d-say-that-in-addition-to-actually-tak_2163033.jpg)
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![“This place [USA] is exploding with young people who are - they're like Nietzsche's hammer - going to break everything and make something better. The creative energy in this country, and what people are coming up with is very hopeful.” quote by Edward Norton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/704/edward-norton-2203_break_this-place-usa-is-exploding-with-young-p_317372.jpg)
