Any Quote by Seth Shostak

I did not want 'Battleship' to be perceived as an American war film. I wanted to do everything I could to make the film…

— Peter Berg

I wanted to do a naval film and I flirted with different ideas, most of which ended up being too intense. So when the…

— Peter Berg

That a modern battleship of 48,000 tons would have to defend itself against wood and fabric biplanes with its main armament was a salutary…

— Richard Hough

The big fun in 'Battleship' is that there are no current battleships in the Navy today. The battleships are about 1,000 feet long and…

— Peter Berg

I was absolutely obsessed with the Titanic - not the film, the actual boat. I'd draw diagrams about it and theorise that if it…

— Margot Robbie

If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.

— Richard Attenborough

“a Marine company or two had less tactical value than a cruiser, let alone a battleship.”

— C.J. Carella

“Thus, a battleship cost around £10m in 1940. Building that battleship today might cost £500m, but to build a battleship representing the same proportion…

— David Edgerton

“From the decks of the warships the foreign sailors watched the massacre through binoculars and took pictures. The navy bands played late and phonographs…

— Edward Whittemore

I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and still is.…

— Jacqueline Bisset

I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air,…

— Michael Apted

“Still the strange ships glittered and shone, and this led to some discussion as to what they might be made of. The Admiral thought…

— Susanna Clarke