Quotes About Conflict

Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

I actually really love 'Game of Thrones,' and I don't see a conflict in that.

It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong.

I think that's why 'Game of Thrones' is such a watercooler talking point: because there are these moments that are beautiful and terrible at the same time.

What's so strong about 'Game of Thrones' is that it's a character and political drama, with a sort of fantasy backdrop.

'Bigg Boss' is a game show, and everyone plays their game.

I would like to be a gang leader on 'Sons of Anarchy' or own a lemonade stand on 'Boardwalk Empire.'

There were gangs in the school I went to. They fought each other constantly.

But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs.

Before we made films about gangsters, everything was about the royal families. They contain so much drama.

A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.

When I negotiated the ceasefire in Gaza with President Morsi, he was, you know, very involved.

It is not only the people of Gaza that can't afford having a fourth war - all the world cannot afford this.

The reason for Israel's blockade of Gaza is self-defence.

You could tell that America was gearing up for war.

I was a theater geek, and I was a surly cheerleader, and that's really kind of a contradiction.

War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations.

It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents' generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the beatniks.

Chechens are not ethnically or culturally Russian, and have now been fighting for generations to free themselves from Russian rule.

The only genre of movie that I could see making that doesn't have anything magical or otherworldly about it would be a war film. I'm very interested in history, and a war film could be something that would lure me in.

The best romance writers know there's nothing that builds conflict or makes a gentleman of a rogue more quickly than responsibility.

Even people who aren't engaged on the actual battlefield - the effects of war reach out like tentacles into families, into economies, into the changing geography, into politics. It shakes up everything.

Characters, conflict and geography are things that must be considered while making movies from adaptations.

The issues are always the same. Racism, war, poverty, the geography changes.