Quotes By Edward Norton

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

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 tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I'm looking at an individual piece.

People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.

I don't get much out of doing a red carpet.

I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.

Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people.

I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.