The actor said that he was glad to have played Bruce Banner in 2008's The Incredible Hulk but could not bring himself to commit to the extended Avengers franchise.
"I think that, you know, my feeling was that I experimented and experienced what I wanted to," Norton told NPR . "I really, really enjoyed it.
"And yet I looked at the balance of time in life that one spends not only making those sorts of films, but then especially putting them out and obligations that rightly come with that. And there were just a lot of things that... I wanted more diversity. I sort of chose to continue on my path of having a diversity of experiences.
"Maybe on some unconscious level, I didn't want to have an association with one thing in any way degrade my effectiveness as an actor in characters. I think you can sort of do anything once, but if you do it too many times it can become a suit that's hard to take off in other people's eyes.
"And if I had continued on with it, I wouldn't have made Moonrise Kingdom or Grand Budapest or Birdman because those all overlapped - and those were more the priority for me.
"But I totally, you know, I continue to be a fan. And I'm really, really happy I got to do it once. That particular character I think has a really proud tradition actually of really good actors playing him. And I think I'm really happy to be part of it."
Norton and Marvel Studios had a public and acrimonious falling out over his exit from the franchise.
Ed Norton and Michael Keaton in Birdman
Mark Ruffalo replaced him in the role of Banner/Hulk from Joss Whedon's Avengers onwards.
Norton's most recent project was Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu's Birdman, which is currently screening in the US. It will be released in the UK on January 2. Watch a trailer for the film below:
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