Edward Norton Quotes
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Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it.
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I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.
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The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.
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A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.
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I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.
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There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.
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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. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.
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I just like working with smart people.
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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.
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Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people.
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It's nice when someone knows their lines.
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It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.
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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.
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Young people know how to use these social networking tools, and they know how to use them effectively.
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Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.
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No, I'm not a very methodologically pure actor.
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Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.
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When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script.
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Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it's guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family.
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All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.
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It's a dream to be in a company of actors.
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In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.
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You never make all things for all people and can't always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do they move me? Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something that is provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me.
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I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever.