- Interviewer: How many people did you kill?
- Vietnam veteran: 36.
- Interviewer: And how did you keep count?
- Vietnam veteran: Cutting their ears off.
- Interviewer: But why did you kill the kids?
- Vietnam veteran: Because of bodycount.
- Vietnam veteran: That first moment, your first kill... it's... strange. Because it's something you've never done before. But after that, well, with me - it started getting good. The killing started getting good. Well, you know... something is wrong here. Something is wrong in this picture.
- vietnam veteran: Sex is such an enjoyable thing. You take it and you compare it to killing somebody... and having the same feeling...
- Michael Herr: It's the ultimate bloodsport, and it would be, not useful to pretend to anyone, that it isn't exciting. That it doesn't really turn people on, always has done and always will. It can't be an accident that the bloodiest century in history was also the century of the movie camera.