Our role in Israel is a pioneering one, and we need people with certain strength of fiber.

A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless.

So we need people who will remain steadfast in any hardship and who have a high degree of resistance.

We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.

Coming out of WWII, there was the assumption, the hope, the vision of a world at peace, of a kind of Wilsonian universalism, that we and the Soviets would get along, we'd have a kind of lovefest for as far into the future as anyone could see.

I enjoy making all kinds of films. I love action films, war films, period films, adventure films.