Edward Zwick Quotes
Scale is not just something that a director wants so as to play with all the toys. Scale also lends verisimilitude, to put together a real world.
Quotes to Explore
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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Why is it that a large majority of Hindus do not inter-dine and do not inter-marry? Why is it that your cause is not popular? There can be only one answer to this question, and it is that inter-dining and inter-marriage are repugnant to the beliefs and dogmas which the Hindus regard as sacred.
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As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I read whatever is put in front of me. I gobble up books.
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
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I had no work after 'Gangster' for two years, and my sister Rangoli met with an accident that destroyed her looks. My struggle with my parents combined with the industry not accepting me made me feel alienated.
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I did one of those 'born again' things and invited Jesus to become the chairman of the board, of my life.
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I am an artist who works with Lego.
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The Rock: And I quote: You know your damn role and Shut Your Damn Mouth!
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It's pretty impossible to be a South African and not have been personally affected by HIV or AIDS.
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I'm originally from Dallas, Texas, where Bonnie and Clyde were from, so when I was a little kid, my grandfather used to drive me past the Barrow Filling Station. At my elementary school, there was a barn outside that they used to say was a Bonnie and Clyde hangout.
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I was fortunate enough to do an HBO show, 'Rome,' in which my arc was built in by historical fact, and over the course of 22 episodes, we were able to tell the stories of these people. We had a beginning and middle and end, and as we went on, you changed every week.
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He joked that we'd probably have plenty of opportunities because with a 50-50 tie in the Senate, he expected to spend a lot of time in the chair.
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Scale is not just something that a director wants so as to play with all the toys. Scale also lends verisimilitude, to put together a real world.
