Mick Jackson (director)

"There's the hospital sequence in The Day After and there's the hospital sequence in Threads. In The Day After people are being wheeled in on gurneys and everybody's stressed, but they're coping with i…"

"We're not in the 1980s anymore to remember how terrified everybody was, how paranoid everybody was about the end of the world being nigh. In the year that I had prepped this movie in 1983, the Korean …"

"It is unthinkable for most people. Nuclear war is so outside your everyday experience it’s hard to get your mind around it. And if you can’t get your mind around it, you can’t talk about it and have a…"

"This sense of things...getting out of control very quickly is a lesson that we’ve forgotten. I hope we don’t learn it in the wrong way. This is what you’re risking when you talk about fire and fury."

"That period had seen Reagan starting the Strategic Defense Initiative, the downing of the Korean Airliner by the Soviets, and calling the Soviet Union the Evil Empire. It was perhaps the most dangerou…"

"What worries me at the moment is President Trump and many in his administration are using the same kind of language about winnable bloody-nose strike against North Korea without realizing the conseque…"

"In this movie, from the outset, I wanted to put it in the scale of people that you might know, people like yourself, your immediate family, relations and so on, and no bigger than that, and not really…"

"I remember a scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project said to me "you know, when I hear people talking about winnable nuclear wars, I just wish I could take them to the Mojave desert, the Nevada …"