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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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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
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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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A sex scene is gratuitous when it only exists for its own sake.
Edward Zwick
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'Milk' doesn't imply that all gay men who stayed in the closet were cowards.
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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My job is to tell the truth about what's happening as best I can.
Edward Zwick
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When we did 'Thirtysomething,' television was either about doctors, lawyers, or cops.
Edward Zwick
