Peter Jackson Quotes

My father was in the First World War.

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.

Seventeen million people around the world lost their lives in the first world war, countless suffered and were marred for life.

What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start and to which I never warmed as it proceeded?

I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'

School-leavers unfortunately will come away thinking the First World War consisted simply of 'going over the top' on the Western Front to slaughter in no-man's-land, when the conflict extended so much further, to the collapse of four empires and numerous civil wars.

The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.

The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering.

I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.

The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

There are too many war museums.

The stories from World War I are worse than anything I have ever read.

'Into the Blizzard' follows the author as he traces the footsteps of the Newfoundland Regiment during the First World War: where they trained in Scotland, where they fought in Gallipoli and where they died at the Battle of the Somme in France.

Are there not other alternatives than sending our armies to chew barbed wire in Flanders. No doubt several hundred thousand men will be spent to satisfy the military mind in the point.

The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time.

In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as it was called until 1939.

I'm a bit embarrassed about how little I know about the First World War. I didn't even know that tanks were used in it.

We have in our heads a pretty well-defined narrative of the First World War, and there are certain events that are obviously key.

Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.

Anyway, there were more after the war than before.

World War II... did not happen to everyone, but it happened to most. There were people from Germany who were throwing bombs at us.

'World War Z' is basically a big-budget B-movie.

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.

The first war zone was declared by Great Britain. She gave us and the world notice of it on the 4th day of November, 1914. The zone became effective Nov. 5, 1914.

A military childhood in the 1950s was very much informed by WWII. My brothers and I often heard stories from our dad - and from other kids - about things that had happened to their dads. We constantly played war games and, nearly every Saturday, saw a different WWII movie at the post theater.