Rhys Ifans Quotes

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

War is hell.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.

War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

War is a defeat for humanity.

in the clash of contending armies and amid the groans of the wounded and the dying, the interests of education are sacrificed – the pacific virtues take their flight from the earth

From Vietnam's 'Deer Hunter' to Iraq, films are never about the person who has had his house destroyed.

There's nothing good that comes out of war. It's simply hell on earth, and people survive, and people don't.

If you're going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it's sort of a cheap, easy way out to write a war story in which no one ultimately dies.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

War is hell. You can't photograph a flying bullet, but you can capture genuine fear.

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.

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

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.