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" If you take away scale, the nature of the story changes. I made a joke the other day: if I were to try to make 'Glory' now, rather than be about a regiment, it would be about a platoon. It would be seven men in the woods rather than all the men on the beach. "

Edward Zwick

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Woods

Day

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

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

" The funny thing is, when you look at photos of Tuvia Bielski, he was fair, blue-eyed, and could pass for a Gentile. "

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Funny

" The issue of diamonds in Africa is inseparable from the issue of child soldiers. "

" 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. "

" It's hard not to want to become Ken Burns at times. I'm interested in being a Ken Burns who reaches that 17-year-old who goes to the multiplex just to see a good story well-told. And if there's history in it, all the better. "

" There's only a certain number of movies I'm going to get made, and it's important to me that they each be original somehow. "

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

" Anorexia is pernicious and not something which goes away overnight. "

" 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. "

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Screen

Relevant

" 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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America

Message

" 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. "

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

" You have to make choices always. It's about the omission of something for the sake of another. "

" I like to reveal people with some of the niceties of social behavior stripped away and the moral, ethical, and political issues are revealed. "

Edward Zwick

Behavior

Moral

" 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. "

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

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

" In my office, we were talking about the fact that they'd announced a remake of 'A Star is Born,' and I was bemoaning the idea of a fourth remake. And the young guys who work in my office were giving me blank looks, like, 'What's 'A Star is Born?' "

" 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. "

" When we did 'Thirtysomething,' television was either about doctors, lawyers, or cops. "

" Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity. "

" The privilege I've had over 15 movies over a very long time has been to make movies that were ambitious or grown-up, complex, that had themes in them that were sometimes political, sometimes challenging, to make these movies on a scale. "

" You can spend an extraordinary amount of time raising independent money to do a movie for very little means. I've done it with 'Pawn Sacrifice.' "

" 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. "

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Engagement

Almost

" People who have any kind of illness use humor as a type of coping. "