爱德华•M•兹维克是美国电影制片人和影视制作人。他主要从事喜剧戏剧和史诗历史题材电影的创作，包括《昨夜》、《荣耀》、《秋天传奇》和《最后的武士》。他还是电视连续剧《三十而立》的共同创作者。
Growing up, movies were something my family and, later, my friends and I would stay up all night talking about. The movies I remember moved me and forced you to think about things that made you know yourself better.
在成长过程中，电影是我的家人，后来，我和我的朋友会彻夜谈论的话题。我记得的电影感动了我，迫使你去思考那些让你更了解自己的事情。
The phone that you carry around with you. It's not just that it's a locator for anybody who wants to actually find out where you are, but it's also a leash. It's a reminder just how tethered you are.
你随身携带的电话。它不仅是一个定位器，任何人都想知道你在哪里，但它也是一个皮带。它提醒我们你是多么的被束缚。
Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity.
故事是一种文化保持其身份的手段之一。
I like to reveal people with some of the niceties of social behavior stripped away and the moral, ethical, and political issues are revealed.
我喜欢向人们展示一些社会行为的细节，揭示道德、伦理和政治问题。
You can't help but reveal your bias, and you can't but invest personally in any story that you tell.
你不能不透露你的偏见，你不能不亲自投资于你讲的任何故事。
If I try to think objectively about myself and my work, I would say I want to be intuitive and distinctive.
如果我试着客观地思考我自己和我的工作，我会说我想要直觉和与众不同。
Scale is not just something that a director wants so as to play with all the toys. Scale also lends verisimilitude, to put together a real world.
规模不仅仅是导演想要玩所有玩具的东西。尺度还提供了逼真性，把一个真实的世界放在一起。
I had known a couple of people in college who went off the rails, who had significant bouts with mental illness.
我在大学里认识几个人，他们出轨了，有过严重的精神病发作。