Regarding his commitment to directing Jarhead (2005) without a personal soldiering background: "This is new territory to me, but I hadn`t spent two days in American suburbia when I directed American Beauty (1999). I only knew the script had an unusual and...
Sam Mendes
We`ve been at Camp Shelby, going through basic soldiering skills, everything from throwing hand grenades to low crawling, and down the road, we`ll do some ground fire exercises, we`ll do some field training exercises. Those are the basic soldiering skills...
Jamie White
We`ve been at Camp Shelby, going through basic soldiering skills, everything from throwing hand grenades to low crawling, and down the road, we`ll do some ground fire exercises, we`ll do some field training exercises. Those are the basic soldiering skills...
Jamie White
The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war.
Timothy West
I wanted to be a monk, ... A soldiering monk. Giving up everything you`ve known in your life to be part of this special unit — that appealed to me. I wanted to start fresh. I joined the French Foreign Legion.
Arjun Narsingh