127 Quotes by Edward Zwick

You have to make choices always. It's about the omission of something for the sake of another.

I had known a couple of people in college who went off the rails, who had significant bouts with mental illness.

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.

Scale is not just something that a director wants so as to play with all the toys. Scale also lends verisimilitude, to put together a real world.

There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen.

If I try to think objectively about myself and my work, I would say I want to be intuitive and distinctive.

I, for one, suffer from a little bit of superhero fatigue.

You can't help but reveal your bias, and you can't but invest personally in any story that you tell.

The issue of assault in the military is something that they've gone to great lengths to try to deal with - and have not entirely dealt with yet.