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" 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
Am
Relevant
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" I do watch 'It's a Wonderful Life' with my children at Christmas, and I liked it long before it went into the public domain and became a cliche. "
Edward Zwick
Christmas
Watch
Long
" If I try to think objectively about myself and my work, I would say I want to be intuitive and distinctive. "
Edward Zwick
Want
Try
Think
" People tend not to dwell on drama. "
Edward Zwick
Dwell
People
Tend
" I think most Americans probably believe that our relationship with Japan began in 1941. In fact, obviously, it began in 1854 when Commodore Perry sailed into Yokohama harbor and threatened to burn it down unless they would open up to trade with us. The imperial impulse was first ours historically. "
Edward Zwick
Think
Burn
Believe
" 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. "
Edward Zwick
Land
Great
Beauty
" 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. "
Edward Zwick
Original
Important
Movies
" 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. "
Edward Zwick
Think
Action
America
" I know that when I'm writing, I always want to be directing. "
Edward Zwick
Know
Always
Directing
" 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. "
Edward Zwick
Good
Story
See
" 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?' "
Edward Zwick
Talking
Work
Young
" 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. "
Edward Zwick
Strong
Women
Military
" 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
Never
Take
Mystery
" Sometimes when an actor and director work together for the first time, it's not as if there's a suspicion, but there is tentativeness, a certain amount of a right of passage you have to go through in order to get there. When it's already there from the beginning, it's such a plus. "
Edward Zwick
Work
Beginning
Time
" I, for one, suffer from a little bit of superhero fatigue. "
Edward Zwick
Bit
Little
Fatigue
" There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed. "
Edward Zwick
Myth
Population
Should
" People who have any kind of illness use humor as a type of coping. "
Edward Zwick
People
Kind
Illness
" I watched aspirationally. I looked at movies that maybe I didn't entirely understand but which developed in me some thirst for their subjects or for their context, and that became part of how I came to understand the world. "
Edward Zwick
World
Understand
Movies
" Anorexia is pernicious and not something which goes away overnight. "
Edward Zwick
Anorexia
Away
Overnight
" The idea that things can be serious minded but must be somehow balkanized in the art-house ghetto is very upsetting because I think it limits not just the audience who was already going to see it, but those who might have had their tastes developed at a younger age. "
Edward Zwick
See
Think
Age
" I was trained in the repertory theater. You would do Moliere one night and Sam Shepard the next. "
Edward Zwick
Theater
Would
Night
" Movies, as I grew up loving them, were always about something. "
Edward Zwick
Up
Movies
Something
" You have to make choices always. It's about the omission of something for the sake of another. "
Edward Zwick
You
Something
Make
" 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. "
Edward Zwick
Look
Interesting
Talk
" 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. "
Edward Zwick
America
More
Message
" I've always been drawn to all sorts of genres and all sorts of voices. "
Edward Zwick
Genres
Drawn
Voices
" 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. "
Edward Zwick
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. "
Edward Zwick
Time
Lost
Day
" Often, romantic comedies exist in a vacuum, and it's kind of odd. "
Edward Zwick
Kind
Odd
Romantic
" My job is to tell the truth about what's happening as best I can. "
Edward Zwick
Job
Truth
Happening
" One reason why in Hollywood we are so often inventing heroes is that real heroes are vexing. "
Edward Zwick
Heroes
Hollywood
Real