Sound Bite: Ed Zwick
Well I had known a little bit about it but it’s when you start doing the homework that you really go deep and it’s not really till you talk to the real people, people who have been there in all different aspects. People that had been working for NGO’s people that have been smugglers, people that had been mercenaries, that’s actually when you actually get a more textured layer on understanding what happened.

Sound Bite: Ed Zwick
At that time they controlled between 80 and 90 percent of the diamond trade in Africa.

Sound Bite: Ed Zwick
It’s just complete commitment, talent that goes without saying. But believe it or not there’s a certain ease, it’s not a huge drama and a trial everyday to try to figure how to do things, there’s a certain journeymen like quality, a certain understanding. He’s been doing it a very long time now, he’s only thirty two but he’s done it since he was a very young boy. So it’s in his nature to just get out there and do the work. (talks) I have had real problems at different times with people who somehow make the drama about them rather then putting it on the screen and it’s just very boring, but some of the great ones are not like that. I’ve worked more with people who are professional then with people that are full of themselves. (talks) I think that they don’t use all there energy trying to somehow create a sort of vortex around themselves instead it goes on the screen.