Edward Zwick Quotes

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... there is a tradition in the most simplistic of action movies for there to be some horrible villain.

That's what media do. They make you out to be a monster.

It's very easy to vilify someone when they're objectified. The right wing did it to Nancy Pelosi for years and years and years.

Are people raised to be villains or vilified like I have become?

I am being portrayed as some kind of a medieval monster ... a megalomaniac. If the people were to really believe all that the press has written about me then I must be the most evil person in the country today.

There are lots of people who believe that caricature of me the tabloids created, so they think they don't like me.

The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.

The way they control a population is by pointing at somebody else - whether they're gay, Mexican, Jewish, black - and saying, 'They are different than you. They're the reason you're in the shape you're in. You're not responsible.' And when they exonerate you through vilifying and demonizing someone else, they control you.

The media continues to spin the State of Israel and Jews as war-mongering, evil people, which we are not.

There are the guys that wear the white hats and they're painting the picture of someone to wear the black hat and they chose me - even though they don't really know me.

There is a tendency to attack some particular group of people and scapegoat them, but this is not the right attitude to cope with epidemics.

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.

Yesterday's news feeds our fear that our neighbours are more likely than not to be bad eggs: benefit fraudsters, bogus asylum seekers, paedophiles or jihadist terrorists.

Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to.

The British press has been unfair to me and the public has followed.

Those bastards [the press] can rip a single page out of the Bible, and if they play it right, they can make Jesus Christ sound like the devil.

When you're in the middle of a rumor storm, your two choices are not very good .... And there are some Americans who will believe that where there's smoke there's fire.

How is it that the country that invented Hollywood and Madison Avenue allowed such a destructive and parodied image of itself to become the intellectual coin of the realm overseas?

That’s like blaming the witch for the witch hunt.

The press creates a caricature.

If you put negative things out about anyone every day, they're gonna start believing it, sorta like propaganda if you think about it.

Media is a double-edged sword and has the power to change hearts and minds through authentic storytelling as well as the power to paint a person, or an entire community, in a dim and misleading light.

The press portrayed me as a joke and a clown.

I think a lot of things get blown out of proportion in the media.

Jews have always controlled the business... The motion picture influence of the United States and Canada...is exclusively under the control, moral and financial, of the Jewish manipulators of the public mind.