“Well, I don't feel that I've played so many bad guys, and I'm rot real...” — Edward Norton Quote

“Well, I don't feel that I've played so many bad guys, and I'm rot really drawn to villains per se. I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.”

“I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.”

“You never make all things for all people and can't always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do they move me? Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something that is provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me.”

“Super villains and bad guys win in real life.”

“A shootout is a shootout. You go in and get the bad guys.”

“The thing is, I never see my characters as psychopaths. I see them as really crippled victims who just happen to do bad things. And I never see them as bad guys; I see them as darker characters. I never see anything as good or bad; it's more light or dark, and the in-between is the grey.”