A biography for Edward Zwickhasn’t been written yet.
“I met a lot of women in the military with Meg Ryan, and they were remarkably impressive: Competent and strong and not versions of men, but versions of women. And they had stories to tell about how difficult it had been for them.”
“When 'The Godfather' comes on, any time of the day or night, I'm lost because I'm incapable of turning it off.”
“If you don't know each other you spend time doing research together, having dinner, and talking about your lives. You try to find common ground. Once you're shooting, the pressures are so intense; you really want to have a channel of communication open to you already.”
“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.”
“The privilege I've had over 15 movies over a very long time has been to make movies that were ambitious or grown-up, complex, that had themes in them that were sometimes political, sometimes challenging, to make these movies on a scale.”
“Anorexia is pernicious and not something which goes away overnight.”
“My very first job was working on a TV show that was a prestigious TV show and well done - was called 'Family.'”
“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.”
“'Milk' doesn't imply that all gay men who stayed in the closet were cowards.”
“I think it's easier to be cynical. I think the temptation, often, among writers is to write about anything other than real, true, deep feelings.”
“I might have painted myself into a bit of a corner doing all these big, serious David Lean-esque movies.”
“There have been bombings by extremists. They are not representatives of Islam. They're not representative of the vast majority of people who love this country, but nonetheless, they exist.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I was trained in the repertory theater. You would do Moliere one night and Sam Shepard the next.”
“It's hard not to want to become Ken Burns at times. I'm interested in being a Ken Burns who reaches that 17-year-old who goes to the multiplex just to see a good story well-told. And if there's history in it, all the better.”
“If a director is really a director, I think he's interested in more than one thing.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The Mitch Rapp novels are as thrilling and entertaining as they are relevant. I am delighted to be given the opportunity to translate them to the screen.”