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.

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.

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.

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

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

The media doesn't always reflect reality.

In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.

I don't think you realize how often on television people are not like anyone we know or have known.

I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the 'black people's CNN.' Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox News. It's biased, and highly suspect.

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.

The press creates a caricature.

Don't read, click links or subscribe to any media organisations that peddle sinister untruths and stereotypes.

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

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

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.

In this war on truth we are all living in, 'hoax' is a potent, malicious, ugly little word and Trump has been using it more every year. So has Fox.

I have long held that many of the writers and artists working in the aftermath of 9/11 have presented a faux familiarity with the so-called terrorist mind.

Gaming is our cultural bogeyman - we blame it for everything from child obesity to violence to short attention spans. But any explanation that fits every situation ultimately explains nothing.

In the West we are constantly hit with music of Middle Eastern descent signifying terror, intrigue or sorrow.

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.

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

If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you'd hate the America they portray, too.

There is more sexism in a year's worth of movies than actually exists in a woman's entire lifetime.

I don't think that anyone has been really created more by the white press than the civil right leaders.

They're all gonna be considered kooks and freaks and so forth. My point here is that many in the Drive-By Media, the faces that you see (sigh), they're just are repeating what's presented to them. They're repeating what they hear when they talk to other like-minded people.