Quotes from Edward Zwick

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

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.

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

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.

One resists categorization at one's peril.

Anorexia is pernicious and not something which goes away overnight.

When I first thought about the military - and this goes all the way back to 'Glory' - I learned really quickly that it isn't a monolith. It is really an institution made up of some people with very different personalities and people of different backgrounds.

The funny thing is, when you look at photos of Tuvia Bielski, he was fair, blue-eyed, and could pass for a Gentile.

People, especially press, want to pigeonhole you.

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.

As we began to read more and more journals of men who had been in the Civil War and then been in the Indian Wars, we realized there was a whole universe of men whose souls had been shattered, whose lives had been utterly destroyed by what they had to do.

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.

The ronin were those masterless men who roamed around, and yet they found themselves getting involved in circumstances they hadn't expected.

I, for one, suffer from a little bit of superhero fatigue.

A lot of superhero sequel movies, they resemble each other greatly.

I watched aspirationally. I looked at movies that maybe I didn't entirely understand but which developed in me some thirst for their subjects or for their context, and that became part of how I came to understand the world.

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?'

In the necessary memorialisation of the six million dead, there had been precious little attention paid to those who survived and how they survived.

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.

There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.

It's a harder time to make original, less conventional movies. But God, we need them!

When we did 'Thirtysomething,' television was either about doctors, lawyers, or cops.

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.

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.