American - Director | October 8, 1952 -
Often, romantic comedies exist in a vacuum, and it's kind of odd.
Edward Zwick
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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.
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There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy.
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People tend not to dwell on drama.
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In my experience, the men of World War II, the vets of Vietnam, even guys coming back from Iraq, are loath to talk about their experiences. And the survivors of the Holocaust, particularly, are often very close-mouthed about their stories, even to their own children.
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The promise of an action movie to a certain audience is not a bad thing.
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One resists categorization at one's peril.
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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.
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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.
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A sex scene is gratuitous when it only exists for its own sake.
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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.
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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.
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