Facts Quote by Elvis Mitchell

In 'Windtalkers,' the director John Woo is meticulous in melding his own intimate style into the cliches of a large-scale war movie, paying homage…

— Elvis Mitchell

Hollywood has successfully produced many films framed by anti-racist or pro-integrationist story lines. I'm going to guess that since 'Gone With The Wind,' Hollywood…

— Joe Morton

'The Birth of a Nation' occupies a view of the South not far from Scarlett O'Hara's in 'Gone With the Wind,' and modern audiences…

— Richard Corliss

The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind…

— Jerome Lawrence

Our touchstones of slavery are 'Song of the South,' 'Gone With the Wind' and 'The Birth of a Nation.' It's hard to separate the…

— John Ridley

The fact is that war films, by their very nature, are pitched at a high dramatic range.

— Mark Boal

War today is such a more visible thing. We see it on television, on CNN. In 1914, war was a concept. There was a…

— John Boyne

A lot of our perception of history is influenced by inaccurate movies.

— Nelson DeMille

The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little…

— Jan Peter Balkenende

It's understandable why someone would like their entertainment to provide an escape from modern day worries and the reality of war. We feel this…

— Eddie Vedder

We didn't grow up in any sort of meaningful representation in media apart from, you know, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Bruce Lee. But, of…

— Simu Liu

The war is definitely in the background, only referred to in radio news blips and conversation. I think, ultimately, this film is about the…

— Elijah Wood