"This story is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an advent…"

"[after killing a French comrade] I didn't want to kill you. But you jumped in here like that. What would you have don…"

"[to Kantorek] Not the Iron Youth then. No Iron Heroes. Just boys... wanna play, laugh, just stay alive. Only boys."

"Well, Kat... I think we're gonna be separated. Three years. You remember when I first came up here? How green I was? …"

"[meeting his new platoon] So, here you are. It's the custom to assign one old hand to every new platoon. You're the n…"

"Richard Thomas - Paul Bäumer"

"Donald Pleasence - Kantorek"

"Ian Holm - Corporal Himmelstoss"

"Patricia Neal - Mrs. Bäumer"

"[reading the monologue from Gustav's script during the table read] I had this kind of... crisis. I was alone in the h…"