Edward Norton Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

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

  Edward Norton

  Narrative, Documentaries, Kind

• I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions.

  Edward Norton

  Thinking, Answers, Film

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

  Edward Norton

  Smoking, Want, Fans

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Edward Norton

  Needs, Way, Film

  "Edward Norton offers Earth-friendly advice" by Mike Celizic, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

• I think technology is having a democratising effect on film.

  Edward Norton

  Technology, Thinking, Film

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• For Keeping the Faith, I looked at [George ] Cukor's old films like The Philadelphia Story, stuff that's hilariously funny and really smart with a cutting critique in the humor, too. With this, when I read it, I was laughing a lot.

  Edward Norton

  Smart, Cutting, Philadelphia

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

  Edward Norton

  Film, Embedded, Process

  "Edward Norton - not appearing in a cinema near you" by Nev Pierce, www.theguardian.com. March 25, 2011.

• 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.

  Edward Norton

  Children, Independent, Thinking

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

• When I look at the directors that I really love, who really develop their films over time, they're almost always the ones who go back again and again and again at the same investigations. I think that when somebody has a theme they go after, it's fun to service that. It's like, "I know you now. I know what you go at." It helps you locate yourself a little bit quicker in their world.

  Edward Norton

  Fun, Thinking, World

  Source: film.avclub.com

• If you try to make interesting films, you're going to be disappointed most of the time. I choose just not to look at it that way.

  Edward Norton

  Interesting, Trying, Looks

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

• Everyone thinks that Fight Club is a very important and successful film, but it was a massive box-office failure. Massive. It was a big flop by any commercial-release standard. And it's been a huge hit on DVD. Everything that movie has become has been on DVD. So you can't stake your sense of creative success on this whole box-office-performance matrix, because if you do, you're going to be disappointed most of the time.

  Edward Norton

  Successful, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: film.avclub.com

• You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label.

  Edward Norton

  Independent, Labels, Film

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

• When I think about directing a film, the thing that stops me short is wondering if I'm a natural at it the way I think you, and PTA, and Fincher are born directors. Maybe some people's talent is in understanding the ways that film communicates, without dialogue, without plot.

  Edward Norton

  Thinking, People, Understanding

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

• If you try to make interesting films, you're going to be disappointed most of the time. I choose just not to look at it that way. I don't look at American History X as a failure, or Fight Club as a failure, or 25th Hour as a failure, or Larry Flynt as a failure, or any of the movies that I care about that I've made that were not immediately successful. I'll stand with those movies any day over 90 percent of the movies that came out at the same time that made a hundred million dollars

  Edward Norton

  Successful, Fighting, Interesting

  Source: film.avclub.com

• Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.

  Edward Norton

  Couple, Thinking, Awards

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

• When I'm looking for Zen and I'm not saying this facetiously at all - I would really rather surf, scuba dive, or fly my plane. And, when I feel tension about the grind of work, it's not getting the money to make films versus making films that constitutes the grind, it's all this stuff.

  Edward Norton

  Scuba, Stuff, Surf

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Making really great music, making really great films, writing great books is an antidote to all of that. And, as people, as artists, some of the massive disruption that technology is causing is so exciting, the way that people can share creativity now.

  Edward Norton

  Book, Writing, Creativity

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

• But at the same time, the film industry just got torched. The risk tolerance for the types of movies we're talking about is lower, and the reason for that is that the captains of the industry were asleep at the switch when their core business was being disrupted. And they're never getting it back. In a way, it makes it all the more exciting when the good ones get through.

  Edward Norton

  Talking, Tolerance, Risk

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

• 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

• 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

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