There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a… — Edward Zwick Copy Share Image
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… — Edward Zwick Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
And how deeply do I let business considerations affect [screenwriting] choices that might otherwise be more or less esthetic? . . . Do I… — Edward Zwick Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed. — Edward Zwick Copy Share Image
There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. — Edward Zwick Copy Share Image
I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student. — Edward Zwick Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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