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Often, romantic comedies exist in a vacuum, and it's kind of odd.
- Edward Zwick
#Exist
#Odd
#Often
#Romantic
#Vacuum
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
#Awareness
#Crisis
#Generation
#Us
#War
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
#Better
#Good
#History
#See
#Story
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
#Behavior
#People
#Political
#Social
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
#Action
#America
#Man
#Movies
#Villain
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.
- Edward Zwick
#America
#Easy
#Find
#Man
#Villain
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
#Believe
#Burn
#Down
#Open
#Relationship
Forgive me, but what is the purpose of drama but catharsis?
- Edward Zwick
#Catharsis
#Drama
#Forgive
#Me
#Purpose
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
#Children
#Christmas
#Life
#Long
#Watch
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
#Independent
#Money
#Sacrifice
#Time
I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.
- Edward Zwick
#Being
#Kind
#Opportunity
#Student
#Think
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
#Play
#Real
#Together
#Toys
#World
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
#Comedy
#End
#Mean
#Result
#Romantic
I guess television is so much on the word. It's so much closer to playwriting - the scale is more just about the voices and the internal lives. Movies, it's a very different canvas.
- Edward Zwick
#Canvas
#Guess
#More
#Movies
#Television
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.
- Edward Zwick
#Always
#Experience
#Life
#Look
#Movies
Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely.
- Edward Zwick
#Adolescence
#Experience
#More
#Time
#You
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
#Communication
#Research
#Time
#Together
There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy.
- Edward Zwick
#Great
#Less
#Much
#Obvious
#Sympathy
#Tradition
If you take away scale, the nature of the story changes. I made a joke the other day: if I were to try to make 'Glory' now, rather than be about a regiment, it would be about a platoon. It would be seven men in the woods rather than all the men on the beach.
- Edward Zwick
#Day
#Glory
#Men
#Nature
#Woods
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