Rifles Quotes

(On filming the Iraqi war film Stop-Loss (2008) in Morocco): You felt like a monster. We were there in full gear, with these assault rifles, on what`s akin to their Christmas. We were barging into peoples` actual homes to shoot those scenes. I felt incredibly uncomfortable and ashamed at the time.

Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body`s final fall, nor the barrels of death`s rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.

The world today will either be stepping forward into an era where conservation and the environment really matter, or it will be stepping back into the Dark Ages, where the people of the world think that slaughter of whales using grenades, electric lances and shooting them with rifles is something that we should accept,

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.

Brave rifles, veterans, you have been baptized in fire and blood and have come out steel!

Well, we found a bunch of abandoned buildings and we are actually going to go ahead and try to retrieve some of these Ak-47s assault rifles that they have been using to shoot at helicopters and some of the people trying to get back into the city to get it back up and running.