Edward Norton

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

“The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made.”

“I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.”

“I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school.”

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

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

“When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want.”

“Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.”

“I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.”

“The period western doesn't have a lot to say to most people today.”

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

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

“The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.”

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

“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.”

“Most of the films that I've ever really responded to are ones that I feel were really involved in their times.”

“It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.”

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

“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.”