Edward Norton

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

No, I'm not a very methodologically pure actor.

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

People don't come up to me very often. Everyone is always in such disbelief that I can go to the market.

I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.