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" 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
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" 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 had known a couple of people in college who went off the rails, who had significant bouts with mental illness. "
Edward Zwick
Mental
College
Mental Illness
" 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'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. "
Edward Zwick
Camera
Trying
Film
" You have to make choices always. It's about the omission of something for the sake of another. "
Edward Zwick
You
Something
Make
" I've always been drawn to all sorts of genres and all sorts of voices. "
Edward Zwick
Genres
Drawn
Voices
" The most interesting thing to me in chess are not the gambits. Or the moves. It's the mental toughness. "
Edward Zwick
Me
Toughness
Most
" 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 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
" 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. "
Edward Zwick
Size
Back
Going
" 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. "
Edward Zwick
Think
Temptation
Problems
" 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. "
Edward Zwick
Deal
Gone
Dealt
" The funny thing is, when you look at photos of Tuvia Bielski, he was fair, blue-eyed, and could pass for a Gentile. "
Edward Zwick
He
Fair
Funny
" I think there is a very powerful wish that we all have of being self-contained and having sort of opted out or choosing to remove ourselves from society and to have no ties and no obligations, and even no possessions. To be free in a particular way. "
Edward Zwick
Wish
Society
Powerful
" Often, romantic comedies exist in a vacuum, and it's kind of odd. "
Edward Zwick
Kind
Odd
Romantic
" 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. "
Edward Zwick
Enough
Young
Rise
" When you're in a fight, and you get hit, it hurts. And as you get older, you begin to take on the aches and the bruises of doing that. "
Edward Zwick
Doing
Begin
Fight
" 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
" In the necessary memorialisation of the six million dead, there had been precious little attention paid to those who survived and how they survived. "
Edward Zwick
Little
Precious
Been
" 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. "
Edward Zwick
Diamonds
People
Time
" Ironically, it's easier to raise the money to make the film than it is to have the film find wide distribution. "
Edward Zwick
Find
Easier
Film
" 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
" 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
More
Men
" 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
" A lot of superhero sequel movies, they resemble each other greatly. "
Edward Zwick
Lot
Movies
Other
" 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
" 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. "
Edward Zwick
Long
Long Time
Political
" There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy. "
Edward Zwick
Great
Tradition
Sympathy
" Those of my generation who grew up in the midst of the Cold War had a very, very strong awareness and very much were sort of influenced by the demonization of the Soviet Union, whether that was through the Cuban Missile Crisis or duck-and-cover, or any of those things that so affected us then. "
Edward Zwick
Generation
War
Strong
" The issue of diamonds in Africa is inseparable from the issue of child soldiers. "
Edward Zwick
Diamonds
Africa
Child