Quotes By Edward Norton

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

Most of the films that I've ever really responded to are ones that I feel were really involved in their times.

I like music, but I need to get outside more.

If I'm trying to put size on for a role, then I don't do much running.

It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.

Young people know how to use these social networking tools, and they know how to use them effectively.

It's a dream to be in a company of actors.

You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.

I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it was all wheat fields? Can you imagine what John Steinbeck saw?

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

I just love movies.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

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 a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.

The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made.

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

If you've got a piece and you can feel the person who's going to direct it is really made for it, if it's really special for them, then it's going to be a better-than-usual experience.

I do find myself drawn more to pieces that I feel are wrestling with the way that we're living now, what we're all going through.

I like things that aren't superficially one thing or another.

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions.

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

Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.

I think a lot of people in their average day actually imagine two sides of a conversation at one point or another. I think that the mental trick of holding two sides of a conversation in your head is actually something that we all do.

I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.

I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.

You can't control everything that comes to you.

Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.

When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want.

I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.

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