Sam Mendes Quotes
Violence is something that's very deliberately chosen - who sees it, the effect it has on the person watching, and the person performing the act of violence is more important than the violence itself. It's not about a gore-fest or how much blood you can show. 
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I found that it was one of the things that attracted me [to this project]. It's the idea that you train a huge group of men to go to war, and then what happens when you take away the war, what happens during that period of time, which is really at the center of the movie. They turned on themselves and each other. They create their own wars?All the war literature that I had read had been about combat, and here was a story about there being no combat even though you're trained to kill.
- Sam Mendes
