"If you take away scale, the nature of the story changes. I made a joke the other day: if I were to t..." — Edward Zwick

There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy.

Often, romantic comedies exist in a vacuum, and it's kind of odd.

I think most Americans probably believe that our relationship with Japan began in 1941. In fact, obviously, it began in 1854 when Commodore Perry sailed into Yokohama harbor and threatened to burn it down unless they would open up to trade with us. The imperial impulse was first ours historically.

The privilege I've had over 15 movies over a very long time has been to make movies that were ambitious or grown-up, complex, that had themes in them that were sometimes political, sometimes challenging, to make these movies on a scale.