Film Quotes by Edward Zwick

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

— Edward Zwick

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

— Edward Zwick

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

— 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…

— Edward Zwick

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

— 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…

— 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

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

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

— 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…

— Edward Zwick

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

— 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

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…

— 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…

— Edward Zwick