Quotes About Engagement

We can't have a failure in Iraq, but we also can't be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it's going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself.

I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can.

Sometimes, there's not an honest engagement of Ireland in Hollywood movies.

Whenever I come to Ireland, I end up just bantering with the crowd so the show will just be what it is.

I never use the word 'I' when I interview someone. I think it's irrelevant.

It's irrelevant whether it's a big match or not. It's about focusing on your job at the time. You're still trying to do things as well as you can.

You can't talk about life without talking about politics. You have to have both. If you're just a political person, you're going to burn out. If you, as an artist, are just focused inward, you're going to eventually be irrelevant.

There is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the United States anymore.

It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie; the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't.

Once I sign a film, irrespective of whether it is a small production or a large one, I make it mine and give my best.

The overriding goal of counterinsurgency is to make friends: You make friends with the people; you isolate the insurgents.

You cannot isolate yourself from the crowd - even if you want to.

You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.

Entertainment and art are not isolated.

Belarus cannot be isolated.

I cannot write in isolation. I write with people around me.

Of course, isolationism will not keep America isolated.

Isolationism is over.

Kneejerk interventionism or kneejerk isolationism is the wrong course for Britain.

Isolationism is not leadership.

I would like to be more active outside of Israel.

Lean into your curiosity about any issue, and there will likely be people to share a little bit more of their knowledge and insight and give you ideas on how to make change.

I have always believed that on important issues, the leaders must lead. Where the leaders fail to lead, and people are really concerned about it, the people will take the lead and make the leaders follow.

It's probably not an accident that the films that I care about happen to be about issues that matter to me, stories that I want to tell.