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" 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. "

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Depend

Know

" 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. "

" The phone that you carry around with you. It's not just that it's a locator for anybody who wants to actually find out where you are, but it's also a leash. It's a reminder just how tethered you are. "

" A lot of superhero sequel movies, they resemble each other greatly. "

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

" Ironically, it's easier to raise the money to make the film than it is to have the film find wide distribution. "

" Forgive me, but what is the purpose of drama but catharsis? "

Edward Zwick

Drama

Forgive

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

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

" If I try to think objectively about myself and my work, I would say I want to be intuitive and distinctive. "

" It's a harder time to make original, less conventional movies. But God, we need them! "

" One resists categorization at one's peril. "

Edward Zwick

Peril

" I think that I am interested in the resonance between character drama and high stakes, either situational or political or social or other kind of elevated drama, and I tend to find that those things combust. "

" I've always been drawn to all sorts of genres and all sorts of voices. "

" 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

" I've always believed that the stories and the performances are more important than I am. I think that the more invisible that my hand is, the more attention people can pay to the story and to those performances. "

" One of the great tragedies is that there is so much less open land available in Japan today. Many Japanese come to New Zealand because of its beauty. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I guess television is so much on the word. It's so much closer to playwriting - the scale is more just about the voices and the internal lives. Movies, it's a very different canvas. "

Edward Zwick

Television

Movies

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

" 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?' "

" I had known a couple of people in college who went off the rails, who had significant bouts with mental illness. "

" I tend not to go look at movies before I make a movie. I'd rather not be specifically influenced. "

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Rather

Movie

" Scale is not just something that a director wants so as to play with all the toys. Scale also lends verisimilitude, to put together a real world. "

" A sex scene is gratuitous when it only exists for its own sake. "

" Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have been around during the fervor of the match in Reykjavik and the rise of Bobby Fischer, so those two things conspired to pique my interest. "

" 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. "

" 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. "