Edward Zwick Quotes

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Edward Zwick

Profession : Director

Birth : October 8, 1952

I tend not to go look at movies before I make a movie. I'd rather not be specifically influenced.

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I think that I am interested in the resonance between character drama and high stakes, either situational or political or social or other kind of elevated drama, and I tend to find that those things combust.

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I'm always interested in the ways in which a character can inhabit either a theme or a premise personally, so that those scenes that are about his character or his relationship with other characters feel in context and don't seem to be apart from or oddly vestigial to the actual drama.

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When we did 'Thirtysomething,' television was either about doctors, lawyers, or cops.

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My very first job was working on a TV show that was a prestigious TV show and well done - was called 'Family.'

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People, especially press, want to pigeonhole you.

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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 know that when I'm writing, I always want to be directing.

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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 was trained in the repertory theater. You would do Moliere one night and Sam Shepard the next.

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I've always been drawn to all sorts of genres and all sorts of voices.

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I guess television is so much on the word. It's so much closer to playwriting - the scale is more just about the voices and the internal lives. Movies, it's a very different canvas.

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I've never been one of those guys who storyboards every frame, because that would take away some of the mystery and some of the fun.

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My job is to tell the truth about what's happening as best I can.

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When my own son was 12, we didn't want toy guns in the house. So he just picked up a stick and went, 'Bam! Bam! Bam!' That's the testosterone of a 12-year-old boy.

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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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'Milk' doesn't imply that all gay men who stayed in the closet were cowards.

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Yes, illness is serious, but the indignities are also funny. And that defines my world view.

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There is nothing that is so serious that you can't also see its comic side. Comedy is a way of talking about the most serious things.

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It's a harder time to make original, less conventional movies. But God, we need them!

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