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… — 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
When I think of my background, if I was privileged on any level, it was in terms of the kind of exposure… — 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 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
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 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 hear about actors being exterior actors and actors being instinctual actors and I always think it's crap. Anybody who knows anything… — 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
I think that the environmental movement is wisely moving away from a largely emotion-based argument for the spiritual or intrinsic value of… — 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
When I was about 16 or 17, I had a teacher who took a group of us to the National Theater in… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I do subscribe to the maxim that generally comedy is like jazz. Either you get it or you don't. You can't learn… — 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
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
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
I just don't think most of us are aware how much of what we throw away ends up in the ocean, for… — 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
Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people. — 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'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
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
The Zionist Tulsa Jew who's pugnacious is a reality. I grew up around it. And I think it's really, really funny and… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I think there is a serious corruption in the idea sold through advertising that you can attain spiritual peace through lifestyle 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
