Edward Norton Quotes
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I tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I'm looking at an individual piece.
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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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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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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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The people who work in the scientific field, they need help to convey what it's about.
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I think we really feel like Crowdrise could be something that, 20 years from now, people take for granted because that's just how you do it, like if you're going to raise money for something, that's how you do it.
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You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label.
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I like things that aren't superficially one thing or another.
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Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.
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I'm a New Yorker, you know.
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The period western doesn't have a lot to say to most people today.
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If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack.
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The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made.
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I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school.
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I don't get much out of doing a red carpet.
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Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways.
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I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more.
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You can't control everything that comes to you.
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I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.
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I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.
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I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.
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I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass.
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People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest.
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You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.