Quote

As we say in the sewer, time and tide wait for no man.

Edward Norton

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Edward Norton
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 18
Actor
Character Actor
Environmentalist
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Journalist
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Boston
Massachusetts
Edward Harrison Norton
Sewers
Tide
Tides
Wait
Waiting
Men
Time
Honeymooners
Sewer

More quotes by Edward Norton

Image
I grow tired of intelligence having such a limited manifestation in movies - intelligence usually meaning coastal, with a certain level of formal education.
Edward Norton
Image
You can do things in twin scenes now you couldn't before. You can implement actual moving cameras.
Edward Norton
Image
When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want.
Edward Norton
Image
A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.
Edward Norton
Image
Any questions I had about whether a redneck from Oklahoma could become a Brown Classical Philosophy professor ended when I met Tim [Blake Nelson].
Edward Norton
Image
People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest.
Edward Norton
Image
If there's a criteria that really gets me interested in a work besides any type of personal interaction with the theme, it's if I feel like this is the right piece of work for that director at that moment in their career.
Edward Norton
Image
The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made.
Edward Norton
Image
Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.
Edward Norton
Image
I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.
Edward Norton
Image
When I think of my background, if I was privileged on any level, it was in terms of the kind of exposure to experience and bohe-mian cultural influence that my parents and my uncles and my grandfather gave me. On both sides I come from an extremely eccentric, artsy, intellectually intense, activist family.
Edward Norton
Image
You dream as an actor's director of letting moments breathe through two-shots.
Edward Norton
Image
On the downside, to paraphrase Thom Yorke talking about the music business, we're still having to deal with the stench of the last fart of the dying corpse of this regressive vision that America is a white, middle-aged, male, conservative country.
Edward Norton
Image
Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors.
Edward Norton
Image
What has always been most interesting about acting to me personally is that it affords you the chance to shift gears, both in terms of the experiences you get to have through doing it, but also the different kinds of things you get to represent.
Edward Norton
Image
I don't think you should sit around and wait for people to give you an opportunity to express yourself or do your work, or whatever. Actors have to be producers and writers have to be producers.
Edward Norton
Image
I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever.
Edward Norton
Image
The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.
Edward Norton
Image
When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don't want to become one person because then you lose the person you are.
Edward Norton
Image
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