Generally, studios are adverse to making films about war in the Middle East. They'd much rather make a film with a superhero or an alien or a robot.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
With Vietnam, the Iraq War, so many American films about war are almost always from the American point of view. You almost never have a Middle Eastern character by name with a story.
The future of Arab films is absolutely up to Arabs and no one else. They've got the equipment, they've got the will, they've got the talent, now they just need a little bit of history behind them and a bit of cultural relaxation.
A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.
War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.
I actually think every war movie is an antiwar movie in its own way - with the exception of some of the propaganda movies.
It's hard to get movie studios to pay a lot of money for movies that don't have robots or explosions.
War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography, I would imagine it becomes more difficult.
Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.
There's enough of a willingness in the West to do sympathetic movies about Arab roles.
To make a film is easy; to make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle.