Edward Zwick
Edward Zwick
Edward M. Zwickis an American filmmaker and Academy Award-winning film producer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth8 October 1952
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
Edward Zwick quotes about
fall commitment memorable
To make a great movie is such a combination of different things that need to come into play to actually make a memorable film and not have a film to fall by the wayside, to have something live on during the years, and one of those elements is the commitment the actors have to their performance.
opportunity weekend two
What I was really overwhelmed with by Africa was its tremendous natural beauty; I got to go to some pretty amazing places. Every other weekend we got a day or two off and go on a safari or the natural wonders of Africa and if anyone gets the opportunity to go there, it's something you have to do in your lifetime.
thinking together working-together
I don't think it's a prize when actors and directors or writers and actors work together more than once. You have a trust and a shorthand and a lot of times you even reach the point, where in the process, you don't even have to talk.
children heart son
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.
mean dark serious
I maintain that no movie can be funny enough. I mean even the most serious, even the most intense movie and I know enough about life to know in those dark moments inevitably someone will say something funny and I will be part of the whole experience.
giving political messages
It's always great to do a movie that you find is entertaining, but also can give some sort of political or social message.
country children acquisition
I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country.
population should myth
There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.
life years ideas
Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea that there existed certain behaviors that could be celebrated and that could be operative in a life.
opportunity thinking privilege
I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.
movie thinking people
I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them.
ideas people giving
You do these movies, you give it out to the world and you really have no idea how people are going to react to you.
men thinking america
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.
philosophical crafts may
However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about narrative. And it's about telling stories that are engaging and dramatic.