Quotes from Edward Norton

Young people know how to use these social networking tools, and they know how to use them effectively.

I think a lot of people in their average day actually imagine two sides of a conversation at one point or another. I think that the mental trick of holding two sides of a conversation in your head is actually something that we all do.

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.

My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s.

Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.

There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.

A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.

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.

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

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.

Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.

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

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

If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack.

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

I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.

Well, I don't feel that I've played so many bad guys, and I'm rot really drawn to villains per se. I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.

I tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I'm looking at an individual piece.

It's nice when someone knows their lines.

Most of what I know about environmental conservation I learned from my father, who has been a leader within the movement for over 30 years.

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

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