Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it’s much too painful.

Edmund Hall Northwas an American screenwriter who shared an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay with Francis Ford Coppola in 1970 for their script for Patton.
North wrote the screenplay for the 1951 science-fiction classic The Day the Earth Stood Still and is credited with creating the famous line from the film, “Klaatu barada nikto”.