Edward Zwick Quotes
I tend not to go look at movies before I make a movie. I'd rather not be specifically influenced.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.
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I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.
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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.
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To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
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A man in the house is worth two in the street.
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There's nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things. It's when we place that as a measure of the value of ourselves that it goes askew.
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She's the quiet type who's into heavy metal.
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It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there.
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If it feels like you're aiming for something too familiar, and you're not having a primary new experience, then what's the point of making that movie? It's been done before, so try to find something new out of it.
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I tend not to go look at movies before I make a movie. I'd rather not be specifically influenced.
