"I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Edward Zwick

#Life Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Issues Quotes

“The place that I worked I used to joke about it. There was a, every morning at 10:30 I'd come into work and I'd go into this cubicle that had a little upright piano and fake white cork bricks on the wall, and a little slate that came out of the wall that you could actually write on. And a door that locked from the outside. Every day from 10 to 6, we'd go in there and pretend that we were 13 year old girls and write these songs. That was the gig.”
“[On Ian Fleming:] The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them.”
“You must also realize that the stuff of excellence-truth, real scientific truth-can be elusive... It is too often covered by the heavy fog of fear and hidden by the darkness of your detractors.”
“Simplicity, wit, and good typography.”
“I wonder if I cry whether my tears would be gray.”

Source : Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“If you can get out there and say I'm going to...I'm willing to fail at what I feel is right, that's it.”
“Don't try to blame the rest of the world. The blame only lies with you. Recognize that immediately.”
“The companies I have traditionally seen do best over the long term had lead investors for their seed rounds”

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