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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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" 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. "

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Beauty

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" People tend not to dwell on drama. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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'm very promiscuous in my tastes. "

" I've enjoyed the singular focus of not going back and forth between the two mediums. It isn't about the screen size so much as film being where the stories I'm most interested in telling happen to be at. "

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

" 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

" The most interesting thing to me in chess are not the gambits. Or the moves. It's the mental toughness. "

Edward Zwick

Toughness

Most

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" There's a rising tide of concern among activists, economists, and artists about Africa. Theres a temptation to think of it as a monolith as opposed to all these different countries with different problems. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Edward Zwick

Rather

Movie

" 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. "

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

" The thing that has always interested me - amidst the scale, the historical spectacle, or the social significance or the political resonance - has been the relationships. "

Edward Zwick

Always

Political