Edward Zwick Quotes

I don't want to limit myself as an actor alone.

I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people look back at and say, 'His early work was really great.'

I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.

I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.

I hope to always keep stretching myself and not stay in one box or lane.

Growing up people would tell me: 'Yo, you only can do one thing. If you're going to rap, just rap. If you're going to sing, just sing.' It boxed me in. But I just figured out a way to show everything. It's like if you have a job interview, you want to present as many skills as you have.

I discovered early that as an artist there was absolutely nothing wrong with being surrounded by people who were not dedicated to your field.

If you want to explore things you haven't explored, having people who look just like you and think just like you is not the best way.

I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.

Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.

Let me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world was not as small as my house. And that everybody in my home town was not representative of the way people in the world were raised. And that was what saved me.

I've always been schizophrenic; I've never been interested in limiting myself.

My own way of thinking is very conservative, very linear and not particularly imaginative, but if I look for things in different places, sometimes things happen.

I love the idea of renaissance. If my career is like painting a canvas, I want to have as many different colors in there as I can.

Really, you want to have variety as an actor. If you spend your career doing one thing solidly, people get burned out.

I don't think an artist should keep themselves categorized in a specific box.

It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed.

I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not going to get too many surprises if you only focus on the stuff that fits inside the box that you know.

If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is.

I do not want myself to be restricted to a pigeonholed kind of filmmaker.

I don't want to limit myself to one genre and want to broaden it, more so in my 30s and 40s.

I don't think that because l'm a composer I only have to compose music.

Being tied down to a pre-med or engineering track would have slotted me into a very narrow group. Being a young filmmaker allowed me to explore many areas of life and many kinds of people.

I think it's human nature to say, 'You're a wrestler. That is what you do.' I think it can be hard sometimes for people to understand that you can have more than one thing you like to do.

As an artist, I do not want to limit my skills to one medium alone.