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. – Edward Zwick
I think to see American troops in an American city is, you know, the sum of all of our fears. – Edward Zwick
Ironically, it’s easier to raise the money to make the film than it is to have the film find wide distribution. – Edward Zwick
I might have painted myself into a bit of a corner doing all these big, serious David Lean-esque movies. – Edward Zwick
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. – Edward Zwick
I think it’s too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man. – Edward Zwick
I was trained in the repertory theater. You would do Moliere one night and Sam Shepard the next. – Edward Zwick
I’ve always believed that the stories and the performances are more important than I am. I think that the more invisible that my hand is, the more attention people can pay to the story and to those performances. – Edward Zwick
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
You can’t help but reveal your bias, and you can’t but invest personally in any story that you tell. – Edward Zwick
There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed. – Edward Zwick
There is nothing that is so serious that you can’t also see its comic side. Comedy is a way of talking about the most serious things. – Edward Zwick