David Ayer Quotes

World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.

I started photographing people on the street during World War II. I used a little box Brownie. Nothing too expensive.

I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves's memoir 'Goodbye to All That,' and a civilian memoir, 'Testament of Youth,' by Vera Brittain.

I don't really think much about how I would have fared in the Second World War. It's a topic that has to be treated with respect and subtlety, and you can't just go in all guns blazing and make an epic action film.

When I was in middle school, and teachers lectured about World War II, the conflict seemed impossibly distant and irrelevant. And it had only happened 15 years earlier.

Every show you do, you have to do research, and I love to dig into things. I learned about World War II by doing 'Anne Frank.'

The D-Day moniker wasn't invented for the Allied invasion. The same name had been attached to the date of every planned offensive of World War II. It was first coined during World War I, at the U.S. attack at the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, in France in 1918.

After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.

I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me. I knew very extensively a lot about World War I.

Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn't know anything about the war. I did not understand anything about it. I didn't see how I could write it.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.

My dad goes through war novels like I go through boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

The only other human endeavor on which there's more 16-millimeter film than pro football is World War II, and we're going to pass that in 2013.

Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war.

I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me.

In World War II, neither side reported its own atrocities… both sides emphasized atrocities committed by the enemy

Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated - Japan's attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.

My father was a member of the Dunkirk Veterans Association.

You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict

The civilians were being prepared to fight. The civilians were being told how to sharpen bamboo sticks and go at American soldiers sacrificing themselves. The greatest thing a Japanese could do was to give his life for the sake of the Emperor.

The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage.

Save Freedom of Speech. Buy War Bonds. War Bonds Are Cheaper Than Wooden Crosses

The Briitish and the Jewish Races, for reasons which are not American, wish to involve us in the Second World] war.

Believe me, Germany is unable to wage war.