Wars Quotes

When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.

Wars are expensive and dangerous. They're not political winners.

After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics... who cares? You know, we, for some reason, remembered what our real problems are.

I would like to see a fierce Fantasia mixed with Blade Runner, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars all in one. That's the kind of movies I want to make.

There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that.

I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.

Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq, wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters of that are.

We're nondenominational. I come from Northern Ireland, and we've had religious wars for years. I didn't want to create an illusion that my God is better than your God. So our show is a spiritual show, not a religious show.

That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.

'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all.

Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.