Matthew Lewis Quotes

When you make a war movie, the other side has to be the enemy. You're making a war movie from the point of view of a soldier fighting it.

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

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

'The Red' delivers intense action, leavened by a genuinely sympathetic portrait of soldiers caught up in battles they never chose.

Battle is the soldier's vital breath! Peace turns him into a stooping asthmatic. War makes him a whole man again, and gives him the heart, strength, and vigor of a hero.

Surviving is the only glory in war.

People try to glorify war, particularly those who aren't actually fighting in them. People tend to make heroes of those who are fighting in them.

War is an arena for the display of courage and virtue. Or war is politics by other means. War is a quasi-mystical experience where you get in touch with the real. There are millions of narratives we impose to try to make sense of war.

What shall I say further? Shall I not stop short and leave to your imaginations to portray the tragic deeds of war? Is it not enough that I here leave it even to unexperience to fancy the hardships, the anxieties, the dangers, even of the best life of a soldier?

War is fear cloaked in courage.

I do not fear war, it is my trade.

The generals were fighting machine guns with the breasts of gallant men.

Every great filmmaker at some moment makes a war film.

A lot of songwriters have written about soldiers and war, but very few have written with them.

War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net effects are much like those of motherhood on women.

I'm interested in wartime stories, as I think it's important to remember what the soldiers went through.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

I did do a war movie, 'Windtalkers.' That was a lot of action. But once you've done one big action/war movie, you don't need to do another one.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

When you go to war, it's important for everybody to know that they're going to come home in one way or other.

As a combat veteran, I know the cost of war.

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

I saw some war heroes... John Kerry is not a war hero. He couldn't tie the shoes of some of the people in Coastal Division 11.

Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.