Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

by Ed Zwick

The problem about opening yourself to the improvisation of life is having to admit you aren’t in control. Especially when life is coming at you head-on like a speeding truck in the wrong lane and there’s no way to avoid the collision.

To some degree, every father is unknown to his son.

“Either we have hope with us, or we don’t. It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart. Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. It is hope, above all, which gives us the strength to live and continually try new things.”