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“He did not want to see the war movie. It would be full of shit.”

— Don Carpenter

“Because of the times, and because the child has been living in a world filled with every kind of thrill and adventure, it is…

— Judith C. Waller

“Television is all right, I’ve nothing against it, but I don’t like how it turns you away from the rest of the world and…

— Stephen King

“When your grandchildren ask you what you did during the war, you can say, I made this movie.”

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“Radio was theater of the mind.”

— Ronald Reagan

“He was convinced that men lost their nerve in combat when they allowed themselves to think too much. The part movies never got right…

— Mark Bowden

“I often thought about him during the war; if only 1900 were here, who knows what he'd do, what he'd say. 'Fuck war' he'd…

— Alessandro Baricco

“Now whenever Franny or Jim spoke to someone who kept a car in Manhattan, they reacted with quiet horror, like people who’d been subjected…

— Emma Straub

“The station was broadcasting Glenn Miller and his band from some ballroom in Pennsylvania. It was probably one of those “Music of Your Life”…

— Bobby Underwood

“It’s real hard to come off as even slightly superior when you’re living a Tom and Jerry episode.”

— Paul Neilan

“I struggled for something to cling to, the way soldiers in foxholes picture their families, or a flag. My car, I thought crazily. This…

— David Wong

If it weren't for the Japanese and the Germans, we wouldn't have any good war movies.

— Stanley Ralph Ross