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«My father was a combat infantry rifleman in the Philippines, ... Like a lot of World War II veterans, he doesn't talk much about it.»
Author: John Dahl
«That's fine with me. I like the process of making movies.»
Author: John Dahl
«He's too busy promoting his nominees.»
Author: John Dahl
«The original script envisioned this men-on-a-mission story like 'Guns of Navarone' or 'The Dirty Dozen,' with 12 people instead of 120, ... But the actual events were pretty spectacular, so we told Miramax, 'You've got an amazing piece of material here; we should try to tell it as accurately as possible.'»
Author: John Dahl
«Dale single-handedly chang-ed the way Hollywood makes movies about the military, ... He gives the actors a real sense of obligation about what they're doing. At night he'd play '40s music and talk about some of the history leading up to the war in Japan so he could bring these guys into this frame of thinking.»
Author: John Dahl
«[Infantry boot camp was so effective that Dye organized POW simulation exercises as well.] We made all the actors take their shoes off, put 'em around their neck and walk 2 miles to the camp, ... In the camp, the actors would only speak Japanese to them -- no English at all -- because we wanted the actors to understand that feeling where you've got somebody screaming at you in Japanese, which I think would be terrifying.»
Author: John Dahl
«It's a story about American combat in a foreign country, ... and it's a heroic story. Right now, not too many foreign territories are interested in that kind of story, and it has to do well overseas.»
Author: John Dahl
«He's good-looking, he's got a great charismatic presence, and he's a very good actor. He hasn't always had the material or opportunity to show just how good. In a lot of ways, he's very underrated. When he came aboard, he went all the way.»
Author: John Dahl
«He is the man to go to. He changed the way the military was portrayed in films and made it more accurate.»
Author: John Dahl
«I did not go to boot camp, ... but our actors did. I am not an actor, so I was spared.»
Author: John Dahl
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