Edward Norton
Edward Norton
Edward Harrison Nortonis an American actor, filmmaker and activist. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards for his work in the films Primal Fear, American History Xand Birdman. He also starred in other roles, such as Everyone Says I Love You, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Fight Club, Red Dragon, 25th Hour, Kingdom of Heaven, The Illusionist, Moonrise Kingdomand The Grand Budapest Hotel. He has also directed and co-written films, including his directorial debut, Keeping the Faith. He has...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth18 August 1969
CountryUnited States of America
I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.
Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.
A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.
Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people.
Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.
Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.
I tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I'm looking at an individual piece.
I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.
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.
I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.
I don't get much out of doing a red carpet.
I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.
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.
I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.