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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Edward Zwick

Important

I Am

Think

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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

Relevant

" I'm very promiscuous in my tastes. "

" It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results is a tragedy for the country in which they are found. Making matters worse, the resulting riches from these resources rarely benefit the people of the country from which they come. "

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

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

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

" 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

Message

" 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 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. "

" I, for one, suffer from a little bit of superhero fatigue. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

Edward Zwick

Drama

Forgive

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

" Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile. "

" 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

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

" I would say that 'Schindler's List,' as powerful as it was, seemed to have continued with a particular iconography of victimization and passivity. That was the iconography with which I had grown up and to which I had grown accustomed. "

Edward Zwick

Victimization

Say

" 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. "

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

Edward Zwick

Director

One Thing

" 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. "