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.

They basically backed the truck right out of the building.

A yard for my little Charlie...he's fit right in, he seems like he loves it.

We are right on the bubble as far as postseason play is concerned.

It's about righting a wrong. Somewhere along the line, someone screwed up. The feeling about the POWs was, 'We owe them.' It's not supposed to be political, but it's kind of hard to review your mistakes.

[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.