If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.
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My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.
I'm pretty upfront about my love and admiration for the military. One of the perks of making movies is that you get to sort of follow your own passions, and I believe quite passionately that we don't pay enough attention and respect to our veterans. Not just our wounded veterans, but all veterans.
Somebody said that part of my reaction to British cinema is actually, paradoxically, a patriotic one. I'm so disappointed that we're not better.
American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.
I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.
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.
Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies. But that's also why so many foreign governments and groups object to them.
'American Sniper' is a movie. War is a grim reality and with us still.
Foreign revenues are tremendously important, but foreign audiences are dying for American movies, not for films they could make themselves.
The military has a very long relationship with Hollywood that dates back to the silent film era.
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