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The issue of diamonds in Africa is inseparable from the issue of child soldiers.

~Edward Zwick

Topics: Africa Child Diamonds Inseparable Issue Soldiers

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When my own son was 12, we didn't want toy guns in the house. So he just picked up a stick and went, 'Bam! Bam! Bam!' That's the testosterone of a 12-year-old boy.

~Edward Zwick

Topics: Boy Guns He House Just My Own Own Picked Son Stick Testosterone Toy Up Want

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There's a rising tide of concern among activists, economists, and artists about Africa. Theres a temptation to think of it as a monolith as opposed to all these different countries with different problems.

~Edward Zwick

Topics: About Activists Africa Among Artists Concern Countries Different Different Countries Economists Opposed Problems Rising Temptation Think Tide

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I would say that 'Schindler's List,' as powerful as it was, seemed to have continued with a particular iconography of victimization and passivity. That was the iconography with which I had grown up and to which I had grown accustomed.

~Edward Zwick

Topics: Accustomed Continue Grown Had List Particular Passivity Powerful Say Seemed Up Victimization Which Would

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'Milk' doesn't imply that all gay men who stayed in the closet were cowards.

~Edward Zwick

Topics: Closet Cowards Gay Imply Men Milk Stayed Were Who

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Yes, illness is serious, but the indignities are also funny. And that defines my world view.

~Edward Zwick

Topics: Also Defines Funny Illness Serious View World World View Yes

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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.

~Edward Zwick

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

~Edward Zwick

Topics: Conventional God Harder Less Make Movies Need Original Them Time

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Doctors are kind of this shibboleth in our society. We know what they do, and we depend on them, but we don't know a lot about what it feels like from their side.

~Edward Zwick

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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.

~Edward Zwick

Topics: Been Began Civil Civil War Destroyed Had Indian Journals Lives Men More More And More Read Realized Shattered Souls Then Universe Utterly War Wars Who Whole Whose

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: October 8th, 1952

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