127 Quotes by Edward Zwick

There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy.

Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have been around during the fervor of the match in Reykjavik and the rise of Bobby Fischer, so those two things conspired to pique my interest.

People tend not to dwell on drama.

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.

In my experience, the men of World War II, the vets of Vietnam, even guys coming back from Iraq, are loath to talk about their experiences. And the survivors of the Holocaust, particularly, are often very close-mouthed about their stories, even to their own children.

The promise of an action movie to a certain audience is not a bad thing.

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.

One resists categorization at one's peril.

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