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" A lot of superhero sequel movies, they resemble each other greatly. "
Edward Zwick
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" In my experience of the men of action I have met - whether from the Second World War or Iraq or Vietnam - they often had to do things that they would rather not reflect upon afterwards. This is perhaps one reason why the story of the Bielskis remained untold for so long. "
Edward Zwick
War
Experience
Long
" 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. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man... there is a tradition in the most simplistic of action movies for there to be some horrible villain. "
Edward Zwick
Think
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America
" 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. "
Edward Zwick
Own
House
Boy
" 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 own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting. "
Edward Zwick
Own
Life
Responsibility
" People tend not to dwell on drama. "
Edward Zwick
Dwell
People
Tend
" A sex scene is gratuitous when it only exists for its own sake. "
Edward Zwick
Sake
Sex
Scene
" I, for one, suffer from a little bit of superhero fatigue. "
Edward Zwick
Bit
Little
Fatigue
" I might have painted myself into a bit of a corner doing all these big, serious David Lean-esque movies. "
Edward Zwick
Myself
Corner
Movies
" There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed. "
Edward Zwick
Myth
Population
Should
" My very first job was working on a TV show that was a prestigious TV show and well done - was called 'Family.' "
Edward Zwick
Working
Family
Done
" The funny thing is, when you look at photos of Tuvia Bielski, he was fair, blue-eyed, and could pass for a Gentile. "
Edward Zwick
He
Fair
Funny
" Often, romantic comedies exist in a vacuum, and it's kind of odd. "
Edward Zwick
Kind
Odd
Romantic
" The Mitch Rapp novels are as thrilling and entertaining as they are relevant. I am delighted to be given the opportunity to translate them to the screen. "
Edward Zwick
Screen
Am
Relevant
" Doctors are kind of this shibboleth in our society. We know what they do, and we depend on them, but we don't know a lot about what it feels like from their side. "
Edward Zwick
Kind
Depend
Know
" It's a harder time to make original, less conventional movies. But God, we need them! "
Edward Zwick
Need
Original
God
" Yes, illness is serious, but the indignities are also funny. And that defines my world view. "
Edward Zwick
Serious
View
Funny
" When 'The Godfather' comes on, any time of the day or night, I'm lost because I'm incapable of turning it off. "
Edward Zwick
Time
Lost
Day
" I think there is a very powerful wish that we all have of being self-contained and having sort of opted out or choosing to remove ourselves from society and to have no ties and no obligations, and even no possessions. To be free in a particular way. "
Edward Zwick
Wish
Society
Powerful
" When I first thought about the military - and this goes all the way back to 'Glory' - I learned really quickly that it isn't a monolith. It is really an institution made up of some people with very different personalities and people of different backgrounds. "
Edward Zwick
Thought
Back
People
" 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 that there existed certain behaviors that could be celebrated and that could be operative in a life. "
Edward Zwick
Culture
People
Moral
" I would say that 'Schindler's List,' as powerful as it was, seemed to have continued with a particular iconography of victimization and passivity. That was the iconography with which I had grown up and to which I had grown accustomed. "
Edward Zwick
Victimization
Up
Say
" 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. "
Edward Zwick
Talking
Serious
You
" The most interesting thing to me in chess are not the gambits. Or the moves. It's the mental toughness. "
Edward Zwick
Me
Toughness
Most
" I think most Americans probably believe that our relationship with Japan began in 1941. In fact, obviously, it began in 1854 when Commodore Perry sailed into Yokohama harbor and threatened to burn it down unless they would open up to trade with us. The imperial impulse was first ours historically. "
Edward Zwick
Think
Burn
Believe
" If I try to think objectively about myself and my work, I would say I want to be intuitive and distinctive. "
Edward Zwick
Want
Try
Think
" People make the assumption that you're only interested in one thing based on the most recent thing you've done. But some directors can be pretty promiscuous about their tastes, and that's how I want to challenge myself. "
Edward Zwick
People
Myself
You
" Growing up, movies were something my family and, later, my friends and I would stay up all night talking about. The movies I remember moved me and forced you to think about things that made you know yourself better. "
Edward Zwick
Night
Yourself
Think
" When you're in a fight, and you get hit, it hurts. And as you get older, you begin to take on the aches and the bruises of doing that. "
Edward Zwick
Doing
Begin
Fight
" There have been bombings by extremists. They are not representatives of Islam. They're not representative of the vast majority of people who love this country, but nonetheless, they exist. "
Edward Zwick
Islam
Majority
Country
" People who have any kind of illness use humor as a type of coping. "
Edward Zwick
People
Kind
Illness