Doug Liman Quotes

I served two tours in Iraq, in the Marine Corps.

War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.

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.

I've been in many wars already.

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

As a veteran, I know firsthand the satisfaction there is in defending the democracy you so strongly believe in, but I can also attest to the trauma encountered from combat on the battlefield.

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.

I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived.

I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.

My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.

My experience on 'Jarhead' was life changing.

I was interested in the war part of 'Star Wars,' so I started reading about what it's like to go to war, what that does to you psychically, about the adrenaline and the rush.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

I’m no hero. Hero’s don’t return from war. Survivors do.

Nobody hates a war more than soldiers who have been through it.

When my father served in World War II, he wasn't told, 'Go to Europe for four months, for six months, and then you can come back, and there'll be plenty of big bases there for you to serve on, and don't worry about it.'

My father was an air officer in the Second World War. My brother was a marine in Vietnam. When I was given this opportunity, I leapt at the chance because I thought it would be a hell of a lot more interesting than what my friends were doing.

I am not going to second-guess my old battlefield comrades from Iraq and Afghanistan; each has his own reason for what he has done.

My brother joined the Army. He served multiple tours in Iraq and now lives in Texas with his family.

The worst days of my life were in Iraq, and the best days were there, too. My fondest memories of the Iraq War are of the people - both Americans and Iraqis - and the opportunity we saw in one another, for our countries, and for which we fought.

I always felt that whatever I had to endure was nothing compared to what the average soldier, sailor or airman had to put up with.

I was deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq with British Special Forces Units. I have great respect for the British military and the country as a whole, so I don't have anything negative to say about that.

When you're in the military, you teeter on the edge of that line of life and death. The reason you feel so alive when you come through is because you know you've cheated death - and that and the adrenaline rush is addictive, no question.