[on Oliver Stone] An artist whose vision transcends politics. And his passion isn`t bogus -- he doesn`t play "Imagine" at the end of the film "Platoon" to break people`s hearts.
James Woods
After Manhunter and To Live and Die, there were all these cop movies that came my way, but they weren`t any good, so I didn`t do them. Then there was talk about my doing Platoon, but I didn`t want to sit in a ditch in the Philippines for eight weeks for n...
William Petersen
[On his movie "Platoon"] I wrote the Platoon script in 1976 in New York City. Primarily because I`d reached a point in my life that if I didn`t write about it, I would forget what had happened in the war.
Oliver Stone
[On his movie "Platoon"] I wrote the Platoon script in 1976 in New York City. Primarily because I`d reached a point in my life that if I didn`t write about it, I would forget what had happened in the war.
Oliver Stone
When they ran out of cadre men they gave me my very own platoon and said, `Here are 63 men, try to keep as many of them alive as you possibly can.` That was one of the more harrowing experiences of my life.
David Eddings
We started at once to dig our trenches, half of my platoon stepping forward abreast, the men being placed an arm`s length apart. After laying their rifles down, barrels pointing to the enemy, a line was drawn behind the row of rifles and parallel to it.
Fritz Kreisler
There was no other single element of the 216th that worked as hard or worked at more places than the equipment platoon from right here in Felicity, Ohio, ... They will have a place of honor in the history of the 216th and the Ohio National Guard forever, ...
Scott Evans
I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.
Oliver North
I saw a great many men die afterwards, some suffering horribly, but I do not recall any death that affected me quite so much as that of this first victim in my platoon.
Fritz Kreisler
I questioned everything. I didn`t see a character developed in Platoon at all. The character in Blue Velvet was much more fascinating to me.
Kyle MacLachlan
[Sgt. Joseph Brown, a member of Saylor`s platoon, said he was like their official photographer.] He must have a thousand pictures of us on his laptop, ... He would create these little slide shows and put music to them.
Arthur Greenway
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
Andy Gates
