256 Quotes by Edward Norton

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.

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.

The more you do your homework, the more you’re free to be intuitive. But you’ve got to put the work in.

I’m not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more.

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

Sometimes we don’t see certain things until we’re ready to see them in a certain way.

With Edward Norton you’d never say, “This is the one we’re going with whether you like it or not.” It has to be agreed upon.

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.

I grow tired of intelligence having such a limited manifestation in movies – “intelligence” usually meaning coastal, with a certain level of formal education.