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" 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
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" If a director is really a director, I think he's interested in more than one thing. "
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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. "
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" I met a lot of women in the military with Meg Ryan, and they were remarkably impressive: Competent and strong and not versions of men, but versions of women. And they had stories to tell about how difficult it had been for them. "
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" Every day and every scene, it's never the scene that you expect. "
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" Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity. "
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" I really look forward to that opportunity to be a student and discover things. That keeps it interesting for me. And I sometimes get easily bored, and there are still some things I wanna talk about instead of repeating something. "
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Interesting
Talk
" I'm always interested in the ways in which a character can inhabit either a theme or a premise personally, so that those scenes that are about his character or his relationship with other characters feel in context and don't seem to be apart from or oddly vestigial to the actual drama. "
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Relationship
Character
" 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 always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile. "
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" I like to do everything I can to avoid rehearsals, even while we're rehearsing. "
Edward Zwick
Even
I Can
Avoid
" I've always been drawn to all sorts of genres and all sorts of voices. "
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Genres
Drawn
Voices
" My very first job was working on a TV show that was a prestigious TV show and well done - was called 'Family.' "
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Working
Family
Done
" 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. "
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Wish
Society
Powerful
" 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 not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control. "
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Man
People
" I've done all sorts of different kinds of action. We did a thing in 'Blood Diamond,' the attack on Freetown, where I carefully staged the action but did not show the camera operators what we were going to film - so it has the feel of documentary, trying to capture something, and that gave it a whole different feel. "
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Camera
Trying
Film
" The issue of assault in the military is something that they've gone to great lengths to try to deal with - and have not entirely dealt with yet. "
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Deal
Gone
Dealt
" Romantic comedy has come to mean a couple of moderately talented actors placed in implausible situations obliged to go through a set of paces that are all too familiar, the end result being neither romantic nor comedic. "
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Romantic
Result
Mean
" When 'The Godfather' comes on, any time of the day or night, I'm lost because I'm incapable of turning it off. "
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Time
Lost
Day
" There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed. "
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Myth
Population
Should
" I had known a couple of people in college who went off the rails, who had significant bouts with mental illness. "
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College
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" The Beatles in 1963 came to America and became international celebrities, but Bobby Fischer was one of the first, as Elvis was, more in terms of the message created around him. "
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" It's one thing to plan and imagine what you want on a film, but when you actually arrive and survey the scene, there's a moment of, 'Oh my God, what was I thinking?' "
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Moment
God
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Try
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Away
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" The military has been actually remarkable at dealing with race, but gender is an issue. "
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Dealing
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Tradition
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