256 Quotes by Edward Norton

I'm a New Yorker, you know.

I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.

What we set out to do with this movie [Leaves of Grass] was to create something that was funny and serious and had large tonal ambitions. A movie that could be poignant and funny, and suddenly quite violent. To have a character utterly sideswiped, and to learn that life is about balance.

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

The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit.

I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions.

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

I think that the environmental movement is wisely moving away from a largely emotion-based argument for the spiritual or intrinsic value of Nature with a capital "N" and evolving toward a very hard-nosed case for the economic value of natural capital, ecosystem services, biodiversity, etc.

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