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Edward Zwick Quotes

American - Director | October 8, 1952 -

I might have painted myself into a bit of a corner doing all these big, serious David Lean-esque movies.

Myself Doing Serious Movies Big Bit

I know that when I'm writing, I always want to be directing.

Writing Know Want Always Directing

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.

Nature Beach Day Men Woods Story

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

Night You Next Would Theater Sam

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

Always Voices Been Genres Drawn

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.

Television Movies More Canvas Just

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.

Fun Mystery Never Frame Take Been

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

Truth Best Job I Can Tell Happening

When my own son was 12, we didn't want toy guns in the house. So he just picked up a stick and went, 'Bam! Bam! Bam!' That's the testosterone of a 12-year-old boy.

Son House Want Boy My Own Own

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.

Problems Think Temptation Tide

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.

Powerful Say Up Would Accustomed

'Milk' doesn't imply that all gay men who stayed in the closet were cowards.

Men Gay Milk Cowards Closet Who

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