Quentin Tarantino Quotes

I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air, land, or sea.

I think in America, especially today, our relationship to war is incredible distant. Yet narratives of war have such a primal power in this culture. They mainline directly into a whole series of emotional reactions and understandings of American patriotism, masculinity, and all of these other things.

I always knew I wanted to do a Western. And trying to think of what that would be, I always figured that if I did a Western, it would have a lot of the aesthetics of Spaghetti Westerns, because I really like them.

I had wanted to make a film about World War II for some time, but I didn't really want to do something that was set in the trenches, so to speak.

All Quiet on the Western Front.

There will be no veterans of World War III.

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

You can be killed just as dead in an unjustified war as you can in one protecting your own home.

In the simplest of terms, what we are doing in Korea is this: We are trying to prevent a third world war.

The western is a universal frame within which it's possible to comment on today.

Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars.

There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared 'European war'... will become the first world war in the full sense of the word.

Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance.

Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work- I am the grass; I cover all. And pile them high at Gettysburg. And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun. Shovel them under and let me work. Two years, ten years,and passengers ask the conductor- What place is this? Where are we now? I am the grass. Let me work.

The First World War began because one man was shot. The Second World War began because of a mad German dictator. Who knows how a third could start. There are also people who think that the war has been going for a long time.

The great war that broke so suddenly upon the world two years ago, and which has swept up within its flame so great a part of thecivilized world, has affected us very profoundly.... With its causes and its objects we are not concerned. The obscure fountains from which its stupendous flood has burst we are not interested to search for or explore.

It is like when you go to war: we have to know how our enemies attack and defend.

England Their England by AG Macdonell which was written in the thirties and is about a young Scotsman who's got shell shocked during the First World War… I love it.

I think one of the great disasters (in military history) is the way that the Second World War has become the defining reference point for every crisis and every conflict.

Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.

You can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don't have to have somebody in the guise of soldiers to stop the bullets.

Spaghetti Westerns are really brutal and operatic with a surreal quality to the violence.

The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war.

I picked up this book called Blue Mountain, supposed to be a really good book on the Civil War.

The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian civilisation.