256 Quotes by Edward Norton

You never make all things for all people and can't always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do they move me? Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something that is provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me.

People think because I went to Yale that that implies privilege, and it is a privilege in the sense that it's an incredible opportunity.

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.

But look at Avatar [2009], one of the most globally viewed pieces of entertainment to have ever been made - the central emotional event of the whole movie was a tree being cut down. And the entire movie, essentially, is saying, "If we let the military industrial complex trash the place that we're living in, we will have committed an epic crime."

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

As an actor, I don't have any politics. As an actor, I'm driven more by an authentic - I would say an obsessive-compulsive-disorder level-fixation on mimicry, tonality of voice, to literally imitate something until I can just disappear into it.

I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.

People say you can't make movies about your politics or the environment. And, generally speaking, I completely divide those sides of my brain.

When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script.