127 Quotes by Edward Zwick

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

People, especially press, want to pigeonhole you.

People make the assumption that you're only interested in one thing based on the most recent thing you've done. But some directors can be pretty promiscuous about their tastes, and that's how I want to challenge myself.

If a director is really a director, I think he's interested in more than one thing.

I might have painted myself into a bit of a corner doing all these big, serious David Lean-esque movies.

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

I know that when I'm writing, I always want to be directing.

I've enjoyed the singular focus of not going back and forth between the two mediums. It isn't about the screen size so much as film being where the stories I'm most interested in telling happen to be at.

If you take away scale, the nature of the story changes. I made a joke the other day: if I were to try to make 'Glory' now, rather than be about a regiment, it would be about a platoon. It would be seven men in the woods rather than all the men on the beach.