"This sense of things...getting out of control very quickly is a lesson that we’ve forgotten. [...] I hope we don’t le…"

"We're not in the 1980s anymore to remember how terrified everybody was, how paranoid everybody was about the end of t…"

"In this movie, from the outset, I wanted to put it in the scale of people that you might know, people like yourself, …"

"The real effect of a nuclear weapon is not what it does to things, to buildings, to cities: it's what it does to soci…"

"I can't tell you how much that affected me, in the wrong way. I was, in 1983 when it came out, I was planning Threads…"

"There's the hospital sequence in The Day After and there's the hospital sequence in Threads. [...] In The Day After p…"

"I wanted him to use all his experience and intuition and empathy with people who'd grown up around him in Sheffield a…"

"He hated coming on the set and despised me because I wore white shoes."

"He did hate doing it. It was alien to his nature. He reluctantly let himself be drawn into this thing, thinking what …"

"From the point where the bomb happens, the whole nature of the movie changes. In the first half of the movie, I hope,…"