Edward Zwick Quotes
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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.
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In my experience, the men of World War II, the vets of Vietnam, even guys coming back from Iraq, are loath to talk about their experiences. And the survivors of the Holocaust, particularly, are often very close-mouthed about their stories, even to their own children.
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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.
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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.
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One reason why in Hollywood we are so often inventing heroes is that real heroes are vexing.
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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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The phone that you carry around with you. It's not just that it's a locator for anybody who wants to actually find out where you are, but it's also a leash. It's a reminder just how tethered you are.
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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.
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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.
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People, especially press, want to pigeonhole you.
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I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them.
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I've always been drawn to all sorts of genres and all sorts of voices.
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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.
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One resists categorization at one's peril.
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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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Movies, as I grew up loving them, were always about something.
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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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People who have any kind of illness use humor as a type of coping.
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I like to do everything I can to avoid rehearsals, even while we're rehearsing.
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Often, romantic comedies exist in a vacuum, and it's kind of odd.
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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.
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The issue of assault in the military is something that they've gone to great lengths to try to deal with - and have not entirely dealt with yet.
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The Mitch Rapp novels are as thrilling and entertaining as they are relevant. I am delighted to be given the opportunity to translate them to the screen.
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If I try to think objectively about myself and my work, I would say I want to be intuitive and distinctive.