Edward Norton

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

As an actor, I don't have any politics. As an actor, I'm driven more by an authentic - I would say an…

— Edward Norton

If Nick Broomfield never found anyone with affection for Courtney Love, it's only because he conspicuously avoided the countless friends, colleagues and…

— Edward Norton

“Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition.”

— Edward Norton

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

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

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

I've already spent a lot of my life doing what makes me go. There's a life out there while I'm still young,…

— Edward Norton

I think there is a serious corruption in the idea sold through advertising that you can attain spiritual peace through lifestyle and…

— Edward Norton

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

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

If you feel like someone just knows what this is about to their core, they're going to have that special confidence in…

— Edward Norton

I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.

— Edward Norton

To me, achieving tone, achieving consistency, is exactly the job of a director. It is to be the fusing, the nexus of…

— Edward Norton

I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.

— Edward Norton

I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and…

— Edward Norton

What we set out to do with this movie [Leaves of Grass] was to create something that was funny and serious and…

— Edward Norton

As we say in the sewer, if you're not prepared to go all the way, don't put your boots on in the…

— Edward Norton

As we say in the sewer, time and tide wait for no man.

— Edward Norton

Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige, my friend.

— Edward Norton

At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.

— Edward Norton

The people who work in the scientific field, they need help to convey what it's about.

— Edward Norton

I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like…

— Edward Norton

In a very philosophic sense I think doing the work is itself a good thing. But at the end of the day,…

— Edward Norton

I like to get into a lot of things besides movies. I've been very involved with a few specific efforts. We built…

— Edward Norton