Biography

David Finkel is known for Thank You for Your Service (2017), Thank You for Your Service (2013) and Área peligrosa (1982).

[on postwar traumatic stress disorders] For a lot of people, acknowledging some kind of psychological malady is a difficult thing to do. There's still an awful lot of stigma attached to public acknowledgment of a mental wound. It would be so much easier if they could look in the mirror and see a physical reflection of a wound - if they could see the symmetry. If they could see something missing, or scarred over, then they wouldn't be doubting themselves.

All wars are the same. Only the landscape changes.

While the truth of war is that it's always about loving the guy next to you, the truth of the after-war is that you're on your own