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" 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. "

Edward Zwick

Carry

Just

You

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Drama

Forgive

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Edward Zwick

Television

Movies

" Growing up, movies were something my family and, later, my friends and I would stay up all night talking about. The movies I remember moved me and forced you to think about things that made you know yourself better. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them. "

" 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. "

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

Edward Zwick

Director

One Thing

" I'm very promiscuous in my tastes. "

" 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. "

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Always

Political

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Edward Zwick

Toughness

Most

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Engagement

Almost

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