Quotes About Conflict

Many have asked me, 'Why have a film festival in the middle of a war?' But they have it backwards. The question is, 'Why have a war in the middle of a film festival?'

Every great filmmaker at some moment makes a war film.

A lot of filmmaking is just sort of slowed down by lawyers who feel they're more important than the filmmakers.

The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.

By cutting off Hezbollah's lifelines to international financing, we can break its cycle of violence around the world.

I love fighting back. I love finding allies, and - famously - I enjoy making enemies.

When things get tough, a lot of people point fingers.

You can't put out fire with fire.

There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.

I have learned that nothing gets readers so fired up as saying something everyone knows is true.

In March 1915, at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, the British fired more shells in a single 35-minute bombardment than they had during the whole Boer War.

I'm a firm believer in... just because these guys are professional athletes or whatever, everybody's going to have an opinion on something, and not everybody's going to get along. I've had my words with fans on Twitter too.

The attacks of 9/11 came out of Afghanistan. It was a failed state, a rogue nation. That's why al Qaeda was there in the first place.

'Armor On' explains why I needed armor in the first place. Sonically, you'll hear this battle of, 'I love you, no I don't. I love you, I hate you.' That's what you'll feel. You see the story kind of fight against itself.

I never wanted to be a fighter in the first place.

It is so easy to avoid getting in a fist fight. If you're at a point where you're squaring up against someone in public, then it's on you. There are so many ways to not get in a fist fight.

Bombs are not going to fix ISIS.

Many of the accounts of what has happened in the Trump White House are in conflict with one another; many, in Trumpian fashion, are baldly untrue.

White lies keep social dignity intact and are far more prevalent than most people realize. Several studies have found that an average person is lied to from 10 to 200 times a day - mostly just to keep a conversation going, to avoid conflict, or to establish a connection with someone.

Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.

You whites make all the ammunition.

We were once friends with the whites but you nudged us out of the way by your intrigues, and now when we are in council you keep nudging each other.

A man who has made no enemies is probably not a very good man.

We should not be flying a flag of a group who wants to erase our history and bring mass destruction to our country through Communism.