Edward Zwick

I never thought about that ever throughout the entire course of my career about choosing a specific role because it would make…

— Edward Zwick

It's always great to do a movie that you find is entertaining, but also can give some sort of political or social…

— 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

However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about…

— Edward Zwick

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

— Edward Zwick

I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement…

— Edward Zwick

There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the…

— Edward Zwick

I've been in plenty of situations where I thought the film would turn out one way or my performance would be looked…

— Edward Zwick

Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the…

— Edward Zwick

There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the…

— Edward Zwick

Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral…

— Edward Zwick

To make a great movie is such a combination of different things that need to come into play to actually make a…

— Edward Zwick

What I was really overwhelmed with by Africa was its tremendous natural beauty; I got to go to some pretty amazing places.…

— Edward Zwick

I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external…

— 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…

— Edward Zwick

To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story…

— 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…

— Edward Zwick

You do these movies, you give it out to the world and you really have no idea how people are going to…

— Edward Zwick

There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible…

— Edward Zwick

I don't think it's a prize when actors and directors or writers and actors work together more than once. You have a…

— Edward Zwick

And how deeply do I let business considerations affect [screenwriting] choices that might otherwise be more or less esthetic? . . .…

— Edward Zwick

I am a fan of movies and there is something about watching film that is burned into celluloid for all time that…

— Edward Zwick

I maintain that no movie can be funny enough. I mean even the most serious, even the most intense movie and I…

— 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…

— Edward Zwick