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Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely.

~Edward Zwick

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I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting.

~Edward Zwick

Topics: Blame Causes External Find Interesting Issues Know Life Lives Look Modern Modern Life Own Particularly People Personally Responsibility See Sense Something Taking Temptation I See

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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

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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

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Forgive me, but what is the purpose of drama but catharsis?

~Edward Zwick

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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.

~Edward Zwick

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There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control.

~Edward Zwick

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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.

~Edward Zwick

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People who have any kind of illness use humor as a type of coping.

~Edward Zwick

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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.

~Edward Zwick

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: October 8th, 1952

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