Edward Norton Quotes

I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.

You can do things in twin scenes now you couldn't before. You can implement actual moving cameras.

Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige, my friend.

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

I studied French forever, and when do I ever speak French? I clearly should have studied Spanish. I wish I had stuck with music, because that would still be great. I really wish I had learned to surf earlier in my life.

I don't feel insecure about any of this work anymore. Maybe I don't have what I had when I was younger. I'm not really hungry to prove anything to anybody, really. But when I stand outside myself and observe what I think are my strengths and weaknesses going into directing, it's what you just said, an affliction to organize moments.

Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it.

You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label. There's like, 18 different independent film-financing funds. In fact, I think the children of those films are getting made. A more interesting question is whether those films are going to get seen and appreciated.

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

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