Edward Zwick Quotes

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Edward Zwick

Profession : Director

Birth : October 8, 1952

People tend not to dwell on drama.

Edward Zwick

It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results is a tragedy for the country in which they are found. Making matters worse, the resulting riches from these resources rarely benefit the people of the country from which they come.

Edward Zwick

If a director is really a director, I think he's interested in more than one thing.

Edward Zwick

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.

Edward Zwick

Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea that there existed certain behaviors that could be celebrated and that could be operative in a life.

Edward Zwick

The issue of diamonds in Africa is inseparable from the issue of child soldiers.

Edward Zwick

A sex scene is gratuitous when it only exists for its own sake.

Edward Zwick

Forgive me, but what is the purpose of drama but catharsis?

Edward Zwick

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.

Edward Zwick

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.

Edward Zwick

I had known a couple of people in college who went off the rails, who had significant bouts with mental illness.

Edward Zwick

The ronin were those masterless men who roamed around, and yet they found themselves getting involved in circumstances they hadn't expected.

Edward Zwick

Those of my generation who grew up in the midst of the Cold War had a very, very strong awareness and very much were sort of influenced by the demonization of the Soviet Union, whether that was through the Cuban Missile Crisis or duck-and-cover, or any of those things that so affected us then.

Edward Zwick

If you don't know each other you spend time doing research together, having dinner, and talking about your lives. You try to find common ground. Once you're shooting, the pressures are so intense; you really want to have a channel of communication open to you already.

Edward Zwick

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.

Edward Zwick

I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting.

Edward Zwick

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

I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.

Edward Zwick

Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile.

Edward Zwick

There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.

Edward Zwick