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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.

~Edward Zwick

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The idea that things can be serious minded but must be somehow balkanized in the art-house ghetto is very upsetting because I think it limits not just the audience who was already going to see it, but those who might have had their tastes developed at a younger age.

~Edward Zwick

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I do watch 'It's a Wonderful Life' with my children at Christmas, and I liked it long before it went into the public domain and became a cliche.

~Edward Zwick

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When 'The Godfather' comes on, any time of the day or night, I'm lost because I'm incapable of turning it off.

~Edward Zwick

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I've always believed that the stories and the performances are more important than I am. I think that the more invisible that my hand is, the more attention people can pay to the story and to those performances.

~Edward Zwick

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I tend not to go look at movies before I make a movie. I'd rather not be specifically influenced.

~Edward Zwick

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I think that I am interested in the resonance between character drama and high stakes, either situational or political or social or other kind of elevated drama, and I tend to find that those things combust.

~Edward Zwick

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I'm always interested in the ways in which a character can inhabit either a theme or a premise personally, so that those scenes that are about his character or his relationship with other characters feel in context and don't seem to be apart from or oddly vestigial to the actual drama.

~Edward Zwick

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

~Edward Zwick

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My very first job was working on a TV show that was a prestigious TV show and well done - was called 'Family.'

~Edward Zwick

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: October 8th, 1952

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