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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.
Edward Zwick
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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
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Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have been around during the fervor of the match in Reykjavik and the rise of Bobby Fischer, so those two things conspired to pique my interest.
Edward Zwick
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I do watch 'It's a Wonderful Life' with my children at Christmas, and I liked it long before it went into the public domain and became a cliche.
Edward Zwick
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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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The promise of an action movie to a certain audience is not a bad thing.
Edward Zwick
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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
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I've always been drawn to all sorts of genres and all sorts of voices.
Edward Zwick
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I like to reveal people with some of the niceties of social behavior stripped away and the moral, ethical, and political issues are revealed.
Edward Zwick
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One resists categorization at one's peril.
Edward Zwick
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I watched aspirationally. I looked at movies that maybe I didn't entirely understand but which developed in me some thirst for their subjects or for their context, and that became part of how I came to understand the world.
Edward Zwick
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Movies, as I grew up loving them, were always about something.
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I've done all sorts of different kinds of action. We did a thing in 'Blood Diamond,' the attack on Freetown, where I carefully staged the action but did not show the camera operators what we were going to film - so it has the feel of documentary, trying to capture something, and that gave it a whole different feel.
Edward Zwick
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If you take away scale, the nature of the story changes. I made a joke the other day: if I were to try to make 'Glory' now, rather than be about a regiment, it would be about a platoon. It would be seven men in the woods rather than all the men on the beach.
Edward Zwick
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Every day and every scene, it's never the scene that you expect.
Edward Zwick
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I know that when I'm writing, I always want to be directing.
Edward Zwick
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The funny thing is, when you look at photos of Tuvia Bielski, he was fair, blue-eyed, and could pass for a Gentile.
Edward Zwick
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Often, romantic comedies exist in a vacuum, and it's kind of odd.
Edward Zwick
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I had known a couple of people in college who went off the rails, who had significant bouts with mental illness.
Edward Zwick
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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.
Edward Zwick
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I think most Americans probably believe that our relationship with Japan began in 1941. In fact, obviously, it began in 1854 when Commodore Perry sailed into Yokohama harbor and threatened to burn it down unless they would open up to trade with us. The imperial impulse was first ours historically.
Edward Zwick
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One reason why in Hollywood we are so often inventing heroes is that real heroes are vexing.
Edward Zwick
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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.
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.
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