256 Quotes by Edward Norton

You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label.

It's ginned up by the corporate plutocracy as a way of distracting the working-class people that it's screwing. We hamstring our own natural progressivism in this country, and that's really stupid.

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.

On the downside, to paraphrase Thom Yorke talking about the music business, we're still having to deal with the stench of the last fart of the dying corpse of this regressive vision that America is a white, middle-aged, male, conservative country.

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

To me, Fight Club was a comedy. When [David] Fincher sent me the book and I read it, the first thing I asked him was, "This is a comedy, right?" he said, "Yeah, that's the whole point," and I said, "Okay, I'm in." I certainly wasn't imagining myself as a dramatic actor when I was running around in my underwear in that film.

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

I'm a Tulsa Jew and I have a religious upbringing.

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