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" 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. "

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" I've never been one of those guys who storyboards every frame, because that would take away some of the mystery and some of the fun. "

Edward Zwick

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Take

Mystery

" Every day and every scene, it's never the scene that you expect. "

" There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy. "

" 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; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film. "

" I think every culture - you can call it an American Ronin, a medieval knight errant, you could talk about 'Shane.' There is an archetype that I think is actually common to a lot of cultures, and even the Clint Eastwood stuff was probably as influenced by the Japanese stuff, and yet done by an Italian. "

" If a director is really a director, I think he's interested in more than one thing. "

Edward Zwick

Director

One Thing

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My job is to tell the truth about what's happening as best I can. "

" I like to do everything I can to avoid rehearsals, even while we're rehearsing. "

" My very first job was working on a TV show that was a prestigious TV show and well done - was called 'Family.' "

" In my experience, the men of World War II, the vets of Vietnam, even guys coming back from Iraq, are loath to talk about their experiences. And the survivors of the Holocaust, particularly, are often very close-mouthed about their stories, even to their own children. "

" 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

Relevant

" People, especially press, want to pigeonhole you. "

" 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

Fair

Funny

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 the destruction of a country. "

" I was trained in the repertory theater. You would do Moliere one night and Sam Shepard the next. "

" 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?' "

" As we began to read more and more journals of men who had been in the Civil War and then been in the Indian Wars, we realized there was a whole universe of men whose souls had been shattered, whose lives had been utterly destroyed by what they had to do. "

Edward Zwick

War

Men

" I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student. "

" 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. "

" Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely. "

" We've suspended the willing suspension of disbelief. We have given up that relationship, that almost hypnotic engagement, with the characters up on the screen. "

Edward Zwick

Engagement

Almost

" When 'The Godfather' comes on, any time of the day or night, I'm lost because I'm incapable of turning it off. "

" People tend not to dwell on drama. "

" Movies, as I grew up loving them, were always about something. "

Edward Zwick

Movies

Something

" If you don't know each other you spend time doing research together, having dinner, and talking about your lives. You try to find common ground. Once you're shooting, the pressures are so intense; you really want to have a channel of communication open to you already. "

" I think to see American troops in an American city is, you know, the sum of all of our fears. "