Edward Norton Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

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

  Edward Norton

  Character, Layers, Deeper

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. January 3, 2007.

• 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.

  Edward Norton

  Character, People, Actors

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.

  Edward Norton

  Fun, Character, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• The deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away. It's more challenging to me, but it's also just interesting. Those are the things I like to watch. I like to watch the evolutions of something.

  Edward Norton

  Character, Interesting, Challenges

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. January 3, 2007.

• I start to get fixated on a story and a character and an idea, and at a certain point, I really want to do it. It's a compulsion to explore a specific thing, as opposed to a compulsion to direct, generally speaking.

  Edward Norton

  Character, Ideas, Stories

  Interview with Bennett Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2014.

• I'm an actor, and, beyond that, the thing I do most compulsively is writing. So I come at it very much from this sense of character. I get interested in people. And I feel confident in my capacity to absorb and manifest the characteristics of people. I have a real auditory hang-up for dialogue; re-creating the way people talk really is an addiction in my brain.

  Edward Norton

  Real, Character, Writing

  Interview with Bennett Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2014.

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

  Edward Norton

  Character, Interesting, Ends

  "Edward Norton in the Kingdom of Cannes". Interview with Annette Insdorf, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2012.

• Remarkably, there's no green screen in 'Leaves of Grass' movie. There is motion control. Technically, there were all sorts of challenges, but really the soul of it is Edward Norton talent. You write these characters when you write a movie, and all you can hope for or depend on is that your actors will elevate the material.

  Edward Norton

  Character, Writing, Challenges

• 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.

  Edward Norton

  Struggle, Character, Thinking

  Interview with Teena Apeles, www.askmen.com.

• What we set out to do with this movie [Leaves of Grass] was to create something that was funny and serious and had large tonal ambitions. A movie that could be poignant and funny, and suddenly quite violent. To have a character utterly sideswiped, and to learn that life is about balance.

  Edward Norton

  Ambition, Character, Balance

• If Nick Broomfield never found anyone with affection for Courtney Love, it's only because he conspicuously avoided the countless friends, colleagues and fans who appreciate her talent and admire her as a person. But then, why would Broomfield have opened up his film to those of us who work with Courtney and are close to her when there are so many bitter left - behinds and desperate attention - seekers eager to validate his attack on her character? Inquisitors in every age, scared of forceful women, have used all kinds of half - baked testimony to whip up chants of 'Burn the witch!'

  Edward Norton

  Character, Appreciate, Age

• You're always choosing the start point and the end point. And almost by definition, the most interesting period is where something happens, as a result of which something is different at the end. And so to me, the idea that you know everything about a character at the beginning is sort of ridiculous. Something has to be revealed. I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away. It's more challenging to me, but it's also just interesting. Those are the things I like to watch. I like to watch the evolutions of something.

  Edward Norton

  Character, Interesting, Challenges

  Source: film.avclub.com

• A lot of people ask, "What do you pull on in your own life from your character?" In all honesty, it's not something that really works that way for me. I tend to look at these things as an imaginative process and a challenge of imagination and empathy, to some degree. I get much more out of meeting people who have lived these lives than I do digging around in my own limited experiences.

  Edward Norton

  Honesty, Character, People

• 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.

  Edward Norton

  Character, Acting, Actors

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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