Quote

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor.

With the situation now, people might be intrigued to see how a country coped with war all those years ago.

'The War' is a stunning achievement in filmmaking.

I would have been a disastrous soldier.

War would end if the dead could return.

The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life's filled with trauma. You don't need to go to war to find it; it's going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me.

Few great men would have got past personnel.

People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.