256 Quotes by Edward Norton

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.

Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character he’s playing.

I do find myself drawn more to pieces that I feel are wrestling with the way that we’re living now, what we’re all going through.

See, I don’t get the sense that you need to direct at all. Sometimes I get the opposite sensation from you, that you’re like, “I really should go do something else.” But then you are drawn back in by a particular story, like a hangnail in the brain.

Screenplays aren’t written to be read, they’re written to be made into movies.

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

I don’t think you should sit around and wait for people to give you an opportunity to express yourself or do your work, or whatever. Actors have to be producers and writers have to be producers.

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