Edward Zwick Quotes
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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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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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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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A sex scene is gratuitous when it only exists for its own sake.
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I know that when I'm writing, I always want to be directing.
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'Milk' doesn't imply that all gay men who stayed in the closet were cowards.
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My job is to tell the truth about what's happening as best I can.
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Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity.