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
You dream as an actor's director of letting moments breathe through two-shots. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I don't tend to say it's time for one of this or that genre. Things flow to you in a strange way,… — 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
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
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
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
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 knew Danny DeVito and he knew me, so he wanted me to try Death to Smoochy. I loved that stuff and… — 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
Most of the films that I've ever really responded to are ones that I feel were really involved in their times. — 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
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
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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