If youve got a piece and you can feel the person whos going to direct it is really made for it, if its really special for them, then its going to be a better-than-usual experience. – Edward Norton
Just because youve made a couple movies, youve done some good movies, youve been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobodys entitled. Its a business. If they dont see it, I can think theyre wrong, but Im not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film. – Edward Norton
Ive always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. Youre trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what thats about so you can represent it. – Edward Norton
Look, youve 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. – Edward Norton