I'd love to just think of myself as a filmmaker, and I wait for the day when the modifier can be a moot point.

War's dirty little secret is that some men love it.

I'm interested in social commentary.

Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological.

The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.

For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison.

When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.