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" You can spend an extraordinary amount of time raising independent money to do a movie for very little means. I've done it with 'Pawn Sacrifice.' "
Edward Zwick
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" 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
" To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film. "
Edward Zwick
Son
Life
Heart
" I might have painted myself into a bit of a corner doing all these big, serious David Lean-esque movies. "
Edward Zwick
Myself
Corner
Movies
" People make the assumption that you're only interested in one thing based on the most recent thing you've done. But some directors can be pretty promiscuous about their tastes, and that's how I want to challenge myself. "
Edward Zwick
People
Myself
You
" 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
" There is nothing that is so serious that you can't also see its comic side. Comedy is a way of talking about the most serious things. "
Edward Zwick
Talking
Serious
You
" 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
" If you don't know each other you spend time doing research together, having dinner, and talking about your lives. You try to find common ground. Once you're shooting, the pressures are so intense; you really want to have a channel of communication open to you already. "
Edward Zwick
Time
Communication
Research
" My job is to tell the truth about what's happening as best I can. "
Edward Zwick
Job
Truth
Happening
" I like to reveal people with some of the niceties of social behavior stripped away and the moral, ethical, and political issues are revealed. "
Edward Zwick
Like
Behavior
Moral
" 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?' "
Edward Zwick
Thinking
Moment
God
" 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
" One resists categorization at one's peril. "
Edward Zwick
Peril
" There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy. "
Edward Zwick
Great
Tradition
Sympathy
" There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control. "
Edward Zwick
Political
Man
People
" People tend not to dwell on drama. "
Edward Zwick
Dwell
People
Tend
" 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. "
Edward Zwick
Toys
Together
Play
" 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
" 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
" I'm very promiscuous in my tastes. "
Edward Zwick
Very
Promiscuous
Tastes
" I'm always interested in the ways in which a character can inhabit either a theme or a premise personally, so that those scenes that are about his character or his relationship with other characters feel in context and don't seem to be apart from or oddly vestigial to the actual drama. "
Edward Zwick
Drama
Relationship
Character
" 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, for one, suffer from a little bit of superhero fatigue. "
Edward Zwick
Bit
Little
Fatigue
" I know that when I'm writing, I always want to be directing. "
Edward Zwick
Know
Always
Directing
" 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
Up
Almost
" My very first job was working on a TV show that was a prestigious TV show and well done - was called 'Family.' "
Edward Zwick
Working
Family
Done
" 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
" If a director is really a director, I think he's interested in more than one thing. "
Edward Zwick
Director
More
One Thing
" 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. "
Edward Zwick
Character
Drama
I Am