Edward Zwick Quotes
I might have painted myself into a bit of a corner doing all these big, serious David Lean-esque movies.
Quotes to Explore
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
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I love to push myself.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.
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I've taken Saturdays to be the day I pull back completely. I do things that are more creative, and I've actually found that helps me when I get back into work to be more thoughtful, and I truly believe that feeding your creative soul is really important to being more analytical.
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I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.
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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
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I think in life, if you continue to challenge yourself, you can pride yourself in what you continuously accomplish.
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On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at the World Trade Center.
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I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.
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This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.
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Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn't believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.
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Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.
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The great thing about having a pool in L.A. is that I can use it year-round. And since I've always been an athlete, staying fit is very important.
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It's fun to just get out there and have a nice conversation when I'm running. To be honest, when I do longer runs, the trail that I like to run up in Malibu has mountain lions, so I always feel I want to run with someone else.
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I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.
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When I tell people I'm an Italian Jew, they're very amused by it. But obviously by blood I'm Jewish, because my mother is.
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When I've had hard times in my life, the one thing about being in TV is that it's positive. I withdrew to 'Cheers,' it was familiar in that it was family. It had a kind of realistic positiveness to it.
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There is an element of paranoia in this inclination to view any serious attempt at a compromised peace as somehow directed against Israel.
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But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It's like listening to a song - I mean, a story. If you're going to sit here and tell me a story, I just like to listen. I don't want to make them up.
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A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.
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I might have painted myself into a bit of a corner doing all these big, serious David Lean-esque movies.
