Allan Massie

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.

Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

I love making movies, but there's nothing like performing live.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

I was a really bad teenager and I got my tongue pierced. I don't even remember where I did it, but it was under very surreptitious circumstances.