Edward Zwick Quotes
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Every day and every scene, it's never the scene that you expect.
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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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I might have painted myself into a bit of a corner doing all these big, serious David Lean-esque movies.
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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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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.
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If a director is really a director, I think he's interested in more than one thing.
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One resists categorization at one's peril.
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People who have any kind of illness use humor as a type of coping.
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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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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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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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I've always been drawn to all sorts of genres and all sorts of voices.
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Movies, as I grew up loving them, were always about something.
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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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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.
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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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If I try to think objectively about myself and my work, I would say I want to be intuitive and distinctive.
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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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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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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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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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I like to do everything I can to avoid rehearsals, even while we're rehearsing.
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People, especially press, want to pigeonhole you.