Common Quote by Tommy Lee Jones

My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.

— John Woo

Film is a visceral experience so I think a good war movie is a valuable tool for making us understand what our military goes…

— Helen Mirren

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.

— Kevin Brownlow

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

— Tom Hooper

Movies are America's primary cultural product, colonizing minds around the world for almost a century.

— Miranda Devine

American film isn't just film and glamor and fame and the lives of people who are fortunate financially. Those aren't the only stories in…

— Debra Granik

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.

— Tom Hooper

With Vietnam, the Iraq War, so many American films about war are almost always from the American point of view. You almost never have…

— Mira Nair

Why are we watching a foreign movie? You'd think if it was any good they would make an American version.

— Hank Hill

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…

— Irwin Winkler

Every time I make an American film I just trust the American director and American writer. Myself, I would never make this kind of…

— Jackie Chan

I think that one of the most exciting things about making films is the sort of reaching out to the world. It's as an…

— Cary Fukunaga