Normally what you do is that you start with three tanks and you would use replication and you computer generate the other tanks, … But here, they were so available I could use real tanks....

We live vicariously through celebrities. People used to say that celebrities are America’s royalty; now I think celebrities are the world’s royalty.

The Wild West mentality is still strong in America, … especially if you go to a place like Texas, where it’s alive and well, or maybe unwell: ‘No one’s taking away our guns.’ In New...

In a way, my film is a how-to about becoming an arms dealer, … During the making of it, I needed guns in the Czech Republic, and it was cheaper to use real guns than...

It made hard-core people harder core, … Ultimately it had a good effect because it made such nonsense of so many views about guns.

I needed the devil to be charming, … and there’s no more charming a devil than Nic. Something about him makes an arms dealer likable. He was drawn to the material and took a big...

Nine out of 10 war victims die from a gun.

There’s a vanity, … Almost like Mafia guys who love ‘The Godfather’ and don’t see it as an indictment against them. Some arms dealers will see this film and think it glorifies them. They’ll just...

Some people think ‘Lord of War’ is a political film,

I can’t convince anyone it isn’t CGI, … Actually, I went to the Czech Republic and found a guy who owns, privately, 100 Russian T-72 tanks. It was no problem to lend them to me,...

The U.S. is by far the biggest exporter of arms in the world. It was true during the Clinton administration, and it’s true during the Bush administration. It’s bipartisan.

You have two choices when someone changes your work, … You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it. I embraced it. Peter and I are good friends.

You open a newspaper and see a picture taken in a war somewhere, and there’s a gun in somebody’s hand,

I wouldn’t make a very good arms dealer.

We hear so much about weapons of mass destruction, … But nine out of 10 war victims are killed by guns. It’s the AK-47 that’s a weapon of mass destruction.

It’s so startling to know that the permanent members of the Security Council of the United Nations are the biggest arms dealers in the world, so they are really the

I actually had to deal with real arms dealers to get the film made, to get all [the] guns needed for the movie. When a guy said ‘I can deliver you 50 tanks’ one private...

I can’t go into a film if I don’t think it has some sort of timelessness to it,