I mean, we sit around and we go, you know, 'Torture doesn't work.' Well, it's been around for 5,000 years. Most stuff that doesn't work goes the way of the dodo pretty quick, like waterbeds and 8-tracks and things like that.
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There's been a lot of experience with torture in history. It doesn't work.
Torture fails to make us safe, but it certainly makes us less free.
We are America; we don't torture. And the moment that is not the case, I want off the train.
Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.
America does not torture. We never have, and we never will.
I think when you have lawyers arguing over whether you can keep a detainee at 46 degrees... for two hours, that's not torture. It may be unpleasant, it may be coercive... but let's say what torture actually is, and that's not it.
The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, 'Oh, it's really tough, my character is really suffering' -come on. For us, even in the rotten ones we've had a good time. I don't think you have to suffer.
Waterboarding isn't torture. We do waterboarding to our own soldiers in the military.
I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know?
Anyone will say anything under torture.