Edward Zwick Quotes

Making a movie to entertain people, that's just as important as telling people about our stories.

My number one goal as a thriller writer is to entertain you. But I've got a chance to not only entertain people, but have them close my book and be smarter having read it.

I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.

If I'm going to do a big film, I'm very choosy about what I do, because I think I want to continue - in fact I'm sure I want to continue - to stay in the realm of independent films with directors and writers who are just emerging with new ideas and a different vision that hasn't really been expressed yet.

Movies have power. Power to impact society and the choices we make. I want to entertain, but I also want to say something to the world.

I definitely want make an impact in television. I want to make a continued and greater impact in feature films, and I want to be somebody who continues to be at the forefront of creating a wide variety of content that I could be proud of and that engages people on all levels.

When you're working on a movie you always hope that people will go for it and enjoy what you're doing.

The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all.

Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.

You don't know what someone's going to walk away from a movie with, but you hope it's something positive, but if nothing, you want them most basically to be entertained and engaged. That's your job. But you also hope to give them something to chew on or maybe some insight into the human existence, you hope a little bit. Not to sound too lofty.

I want to entertain people, but with some substance.

All I really want to do is entertain people out there sitting in the dark and for them to believe it.

We are filmmakers, and we are specifically trying to entertain people.

A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.

I think being snobby about the kind of storytelling people do, it just irks me. It irks me. And in fact, it's one of the things that drives me to make as many horror movies as I do.

I do feel it's important to entertain people. I try to.

I want to entertain people, whether it be with a comedy, a drama or a movie. An idea's an idea.

I'm a family man, I have kids, and I go to the movies. And I'm just going to make the kind of movie I want to see.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.

And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it.

Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about them. That's why they are so powerful.

People still love a good story, and I don't think that will change.

As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don't want to be spoken down to. I want to be treated as a peer and to be made to feel welcome.

It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most powerful examples, spur action.