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I might have painted myself into a bit of a corner doing all these big, serious David Lean-esque movies.
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To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film.
Edward Zwick
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I guess television is so much on the word. It's so much closer to playwriting - the scale is more just about the voices and the internal lives. Movies, it's a very different canvas.
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When I first thought about the military - and this goes all the way back to 'Glory' - I learned really quickly that it isn't a monolith. It is really an institution made up of some people with very different personalities and people of different backgrounds.
Edward Zwick -
I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man.
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Movies, as I grew up loving them, were always about something.
Edward Zwick -
I've always been drawn to all sorts of genres and all sorts of voices.
Edward Zwick -
Doctors are kind of this shibboleth in our society. We know what they do, and we depend on them, but we don't know a lot about what it feels like from their side.
Edward Zwick
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It's hard not to want to become Ken Burns at times. I'm interested in being a Ken Burns who reaches that 17-year-old who goes to the multiplex just to see a good story well-told. And if there's history in it, all the better.
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If a director is really a director, I think he's interested in more than one thing.
Edward Zwick -
In my office, we were talking about the fact that they'd announced a remake of 'A Star is Born,' and I was bemoaning the idea of a fourth remake. And the young guys who work in my office were giving me blank looks, like, 'What's 'A Star is Born?'
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There's a rising tide of concern among activists, economists, and artists about Africa. Theres a temptation to think of it as a monolith as opposed to all these different countries with different problems.
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You can spend an extraordinary amount of time raising independent money to do a movie for very little means. I've done it with 'Pawn Sacrifice.'
Edward Zwick -
I think it's easier to be cynical. I think the temptation, often, among writers is to write about anything other than real, true, deep feelings.
Edward Zwick
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There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.
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One reason why in Hollywood we are so often inventing heroes is that real heroes are vexing.
Edward Zwick -
I would say that 'Schindler's List,' as powerful as it was, seemed to have continued with a particular iconography of victimization and passivity. That was the iconography with which I had grown up and to which I had grown accustomed.
Edward Zwick -
'Milk' doesn't imply that all gay men who stayed in the closet were cowards.
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Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity.
Edward Zwick -
I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country.
Edward Zwick
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Romantic comedy has come to mean a couple of moderately talented actors placed in implausible situations obliged to go through a set of paces that are all too familiar, the end result being neither romantic nor comedic.
Edward Zwick -
When we did 'Thirtysomething,' television was either about doctors, lawyers, or cops.
Edward Zwick -
My job is to tell the truth about what's happening as best I can.
Edward Zwick -
If I try to think objectively about myself and my work, I would say I want to be intuitive and distinctive.
Edward Zwick