Edward Zwick Quotes
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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 promise of an action movie to a certain audience is not a bad thing.
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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 like to reveal people with some of the niceties of social behavior stripped away and the moral, ethical, and political issues are revealed.
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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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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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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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I've always been drawn to all sorts of genres and all sorts of voices.
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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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Every day and every scene, it's never the scene that you expect.
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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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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.
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Movies, as I grew up loving them, were always about something.
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I know that when I'm writing, I always want to be directing.
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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.
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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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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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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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Often, romantic comedies exist in a vacuum, and it's kind of odd.
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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.
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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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If a director is really a director, I think he's interested in more than one thing.
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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.