Edward Zwick Quotes

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• There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As a…
• I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.
• There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other.
• To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine;…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.
• 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…
• And how deeply do I let business considerations affect [screenwriting] choices that might otherwise be more or less esthetic? . . . Do I choose…
• However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about narrative. And it's…
• 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…
• 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.…
• There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.
• There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is…
• 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…

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