"I think most Americans probably believe that our relationship with Japan began in 1941. In fact, obv..." — 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.

If you take away scale, the nature of the story changes. I made a joke the other day: if I were to try to make 'Glory' now, rather than be about a regiment, it would be about a platoon. It would be seven men in the woods rather than all the men on the beach.

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.