So to be standing here, this was really, truly, honestly never part of anything we even imagined in our wildest dreams.

I actually think every war movie is an antiwar movie in its own way - with the exception of some of the propaganda movies.

For better or worse, most of my writing life has been about people that work behind the scenes. I'm interested in finding extraordinary moments in otherwise normal people.

The fact is that war films, by their very nature, are pitched at a high dramatic range.

I write on a computer, on a laptop or whatever.

Ever since 9/11, I found myself interested in chronicling the war and the war on terror and the way that this giant machinery was affecting individuals.

You're trying to dramatize events to tell a story most effectively. That doesn't mean the events aren't true, it just means you're making them as dramatic as you possibly can.

I think as a filmmaker you try not to have any expectations other than that the film have a fairly substantial beginning, middle and end.

In the end, only the truth will survive.

You don't have to go through someone's pain to understand it. Empathy is enough.

We are always looking for a small number of very evil needles in a very large haystack, which is the city of London.

You should never protest outside a rich guy's home during the day because he's not there. He's at work grinding the faces of the poor.

People are only what we believe them to be.

Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for fame, or for any reason but because I could not help it.

I feel like the health industry is getting nothing but stronger every day.

My logic's been drowned in a sea of emotion.

Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days.