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
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
In a very philosophic sense I think doing the work is itself a good thing. But at the end of the day,… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Well, I don't feel that I've played so many bad guys, and I'm rot really drawn to villains per se. I think… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
People think because I went to Yale that that implies privilege, and it is a privilege in the sense that it's an… — 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