I might have painted myself into a bit of a corner doing all these big, serious David Lean-esque movies. Edward Zwick Read Quote
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. Edward Zwick Read Quote
I was trained in the repertory theater. You would do Moliere one night and Sam Shepard the next. Edward Zwick Read Quote
I guess television is so much on the word. It’s so much closer to playwriting – the scale is more just about the voices and the internal lives. Movies, it’s a very different canvas. Edward Zwick Read Quote
I’ve never been one of those guys who storyboards every frame, because that would take away some of the mystery and some of the fun. Edward Zwick Read Quote
The issue of diamonds in Africa is inseparable from the issue of child soldiers. Edward Zwick Read Quote
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 Read Quote
