Edward Norton Quotes About Comedy

Quotes about: Comedy

• I do subscribe to the maxim that generally comedy is like jazz. Either you get it or you don't. You can't learn it and you can't be taught it. I don't think that if you are not a funny person, you can fake it.

  Edward Norton

  Thinking, Fake, Taught

  Interview with Nora Ephron, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 2000.

• To me, Fight Club was a comedy. When [David] Fincher sent me the book and I read it, the first thing I asked him was, "This is a comedy, right?" he said, "Yeah, that's the whole point," and I said, "Okay, I'm in." I certainly wasn't imagining myself as a dramatic actor when I was running around in my underwear in that film.

  Edward Norton

  Running, Book, Fighting

• I thought Rounders was a comic movie in its way. First time I directed a movie, I wanted to do a comedy. I don't like things that are superficially one thing or another, mainly. My favorite comedies are really smart, too, and have a lot of levels to them as well.

  Edward Norton

  Smart, Levels, Way

• I never even considered comedy genre as something to embrace or move away from.

  Edward Norton

  Moving, Comedy, Embrace

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