You do these movies, you give it out to the world and you really have no idea how people are going to react to you.
Edward ZwickAnd how deeply do I let business considerations affect [screenwriting] choices that might otherwise be more or less esthetic? . . . Do I choose the upbeat rather than the downer ending because I know it will score better at the preview? Can the idea be sold in a single sentence? Can it compete with space aliens and tornadoes and missions impossible?
Edward ZwickI've been in plenty of situations where I thought the film would turn out one way or my performance would be looked at one way and it was an entirely different situation.
Edward ZwickTo me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film.
Edward Zwick