'We wanted to show the cost of war, unedited, not in the way you'd see on the news."

"Well, yuh, I know. I know that war is terrible, and that terrible things happen, but well, yuh know, I just don't like films where the journalist becomes the story."

Because of course, you wouldn't trot it out after every dinner party for the next 147 years, if you'd been the journalist, would you? Yuh?

Overhead in the coffee queue, in reaction to a film shown on Panorama.