I Don't Know If I

For Some Individuals - Some Soldiers, Some Contractors - Combat Provides A Kind Of Purpose And Meaning Beyond Which All Else Potentially Pales In Comparison.

I Can't Stand Outside Myself And Be Anybody Else.

I Always Want To Make Films. I Think Of It As A Great Opportunity To Comment On The World In Which We Live. Perhaps Just Because I Just Came Off "the Hurt Locker" (2008) And I'm Thinking Of The War And I Think It's A Deplorable Situation. It's A Great Medium In Which To Speak About That. This Is A War That Cannot Be Won, Why Are We Sending Troops Over There? Well, The Only Medium I Have, The Only Opportunity I Have, Is To Use Film. There Will Always Be Issues I Care About.

One Of The Elements In The Film That Really Fascinated Me Was Not To Look At The World In Bi-polar Terms Of Us Vs Them Or East Vs West, Which Was A By-product Of The Cold War.

War's Dirty Little Secret Is That Some Men Love It. I'm Trying To Unpack Why, To Look At What It Means To Be A Hero In The Context Of 21st-century Combat.