War Horse Quotes:

Wherever you are, I will find you and I will bring you home

- Steven Spielberg

topic: Horse, Home, War Horse, Wherever You Are

You're not alone, are you? Because I'm here

- Steven Spielberg

topic: War Horse, Not Alone

He never gave up. And he does that for us

- Steven Spielberg

topic: Doe, War Horse, Gave Up

Four things greater than all things are Women and horses and power and War.

- Rudyard Kipling

topic: Horse, War, Four, War Horse, Great Horse

I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less.

- Michael Morpurgo

topic: Horse, Hate, Love You, War Horse

The bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal.

- Steven Spielberg

source: "Steven Spielberg discusses War House". Interview with Victor Medina, www.cinelinx.com. April 11, 2012.

topic: Horse, War, Stories, War Horse

I have never before, in my long and eclectic career, been gifted with such an abundance of natural beauty as I experienced filming 'War Horse' on Dartmoor.

- Steven Spielberg

topic: Horse, War, Careers, Eclectic Style, Eclectic

What is compelling with 'War Horse' is the jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring craftsmanship in this movie.

- Stacey Snider

topic: Horse, War, Jaw Dropping, War Horse, Awe Inspiring

We have not looked at any particular movies [in creating War Horse], but again, it's hard not to see the similarities between those movies [because of those filmmakers' influence on the industry].

- Janusz Kaminski

source: Source: screenrant.com

topic: Horse, War, Creating, War Horse

["War Horse"] does have action as well, but we allow the audience to appreciate the environment where these characters are from because the lens shapes the people, as we know.

- Janusz Kaminski

source: Source: screenrant.com

topic: Horse, War, Character, War Horse

[There, in War Horse] very little CGI. What happened there - because the horse was running very close to the trench, we had a rider. So in few instances, we had a rider dressed in a green suit. The rider would guide the horse through the frame, and through CGI [we removed] the rider. But that's about it.

- Janusz Kaminski

source: Source: screenrant.com

topic: Running, Horse, War, War Horse, Cgi

There aren't a lot of guys like me left. But I'm a war horse. I've been through it all. And you know something about war horses? Through the sleet, through the snow, they just keep going.

- Joel Silver

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Horse, War, Snow, War Horse, Sleet

When the Way governs the world, the proud stallions drag dung carriages. When the Way is lost to the world, war horses are bred outside the city.

- Laozi

topic: Horse, War, Cities, Stallions, War Horse

There's a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be?

- Michael Morpurgo

topic: Eye, Men, Serenity, War Horse, Regal

I like the ending of the movie [War Horse], simply because it's such a demanding scene emotionally, and yet [the look] is all done on camera. I like the work not to be manipulated digitally. And it's all done on camera [in that scene].

- Janusz Kaminski

source: Source: screenrant.com

topic: Horse, War, Done, War Horse

My first time acting for camera really was for Steven Spielberg in War Horse. I was trained in theater and I was actually working in theater at the time. I had a small role with the Royal Shakespeare Company, which is a huge prestigious theater company back in England. I honestly thought that was as good as it got.

- Jeremy Irvine

source: Source: www.justjared.com

topic: Prestigious, War Horse, Small Roles

Alas!... what is it, valiant knight, save an offering of sacrifice to a demon of vain glory, and a passing through the fire of Moloch? What remains to you as a prize of all the blood you have spilled, of all the travail and pain you have endured, of all the tears which your deeds have caused, when death hath broken the strong man's spear, and overtaken the speed of his war-horse?

- Walter Scott

source: Walter Scott (2015). “Heroes of the Scottish Highlands: Ivanhoe, Waverley and Rob Roy (3 Unabridged Illustrated Classics): Historical Novels from the Author of The Pirate, The Heart of Midlothian, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, The Bride of Lammermoor and Anne of Geierstein”, p.261, e-artnow

topic: Strong, Horse, Pain, War Horse, Valiant

The horseman on the pale horse is Pestilence. He follows the wars.

- Ardel Wray

topic: Horse, War, Pestilence, Horsemen, War Horse

Wake, soldier wake, thy war-horse waits To bear thee to the battle back;-- Thou slumberest at a foeman's gates,-- Thy dog would break thy bivouac; Thy plume is trailing in the dust, And thy red falchion gathering rust.

- Thomas Kibble Hervey

source: Thomas Kibble Hervey (1866). “The Poems of Thomas Kibble Hervey”, p.36

topic: Dog, Horse, War, War Horse

People often tell me how much they love the digital skies that we obviously painted for 'War Horse.' Well, there's not a single sky that we put in through special effects. The skies you see in the movie are the skies that we experienced - but it was definitely challenging at times.

- Steven Spielberg

topic: Horse, War, Sky, War Horse

But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.

- Isaac D'Israeli

source: "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 461, Curiosities of Literature, Pamphlets, 1922.

topic: Horse, War, Book, War Horse

What is life when you come to think upon it, but a most excellent, accurately set, infinitely complicated machine for turning fat playful puppies into old mangy blind dogs, and proud war horses into skinny nags, and succulent young boys, to whom the world holds great delights and terrors, into old weak men, with running eyes, who drink ground rhino-horn?

- Isak Dinesen

topic: Running, Dog, Horse, Weak Man, War Horse