Edward Zwick Quotes

My personality doesn't interest me.

I really judge me on me.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

If I have a style, I am not aware of it.

I always feel like I'm so boring, but I don't get bored with me.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

I don't think I gain anything by seeing myself.

In preindustrial times, the idea of creating something was more related to your personality. Personality was something that you constructed; it's something you had to actively develop and work on. Now personality is something that you have.

I suppose one should have an integrated personality, but I've never really seen the point.

I've always been very conscious of who I am.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

A mentor long departed told me that the greatest gift in political life, in any life, is to view yourself objectively, at arm's length, to make an assessment of yourself. So whom do I rely on? I rely on myself.

Anyone who wants to be an entrepreneur like someone else is actually looking in the wrong direction. You don't look out for inspiration, you look in. You have to ask yourself how can I be better today, at solving the problem I am trying to solve for my company. I wouldn't encourage anyone to be like me. Just be like you.

If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

I don't know about an awful lot of stuff. I'm not educated. I left school when I was 16, with no qualifications. The thing that I do know about is my feelings and what I think of the world and what I think of me.

The thing I try to tell people who are just starting in the business is to listen to yourself, trust yourself, and be kind to yourself. And do the work to cultivate who you are and what your point of view is. Don't try to be like anybody else. That's what will make you an interesting artist.

A lot of times we base everything just on our immediate circumstance. We don't see a big picture for our lives. We don't love ourselves. We don't have a way of kind of gauging the future, so we count it lost.

I realized I had something new to say, something that wasn't already out there.

The key to artistry is being able to say stuff the way other people can't.

I need a little more 'Jersey Shore' in me, I guess. It's just not who I am. It would almost be phony at this point.

Self-evaluation is hard, and it starts with me, and it falls on my shoulders, and I'm responsible. But at the end of the day, you are what you are.

I think when you start changing things, you're not being yourself.

I do keep my eyes and ears open but I don't spend a lot of time looking at what other people are doing to see how I can fit in.