I did not want 'Battleship' to be perceived as an American war film. I wanted to do everything I could to make the film accessible to a global audience. It felt like bringing an alien component to the film would help take the American jingoism out of it.
My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.
'Black Hawk Down' wants to be about something, and in the midst of the meticulously staged gunfire, the picture seems to choose futility arbitrarily.
When you make a war movie, the other side has to be the enemy. You're making a war movie from the point of view of a soldier fighting it.
'The Wall' doesn't recount a specific soldier's experience in Iraq, but it captures the spirit of many experiences that were shared with me and with Aaron Taylor-Johnson and with John Cena.
There is absolutely no Wuxia or martial arts in 'Red Cliff.' I want all the action to look realistic.
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 to all the tired conventions of the genre. But it's an honor that these cliches don't deserve.
My first soldier role was in 'Flags of Our Fathers.' Casting director Jay Binder saw that movie and was looking for soldiers for 'Journey's End,' which led to 'Generation Kill.'
I would love to do a period film, a sports film, or an out and out action movie.
The film 'Black Hawk Down' paints the Somali people as wild savages.
For me, 'Come and See' is, by a million miles, the best film about war that has ever been made. I would highly recommend, encourage and enforce anyone to watch it.
I've played heavies for years and years and years. I was bald. I came to Hollywood. I did a play about junk. I was a pusher, so I played pushers for years and years and years. I did war movies and things like that.
'Lakshya' is a different genre of movie. While 'Dil Chahta Hai' could be categorised as a romantic comedy, this is a war drama.
When I watched Braveheart I was in tears and I was rooting for the Scottish people
I had wanted to make a film about World War II for some time, but I didn't really want to do something that was set in the trenches, so to speak.
'Baahubali' team is not after numbers. If we would have been number guys, we would have never made a film with such a huge budget. We just wanted to make the biggest war film of this country, but what it has achieved is amazing.
I did do a war movie, 'Windtalkers.' That was a lot of action. But once you've done one big action/war movie, you don't need to do another one.
'Kanche' is not primarily a war film: it is a lovely story set against a war backdrop.
I think you should check out 'Battle: Los Angeles' because it really is a sci-fi movie, but it's not. It's not like anything you've seen before. The best way to describe it is it's a war movie that happens to have aliens as the enemy.
Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.
My dad once showed me 'The Guns of Navarone' when I was a kid. I haven't rewatched it since, but it gave me such a warm feeling.
I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air, land, or sea.
I knew it was called 'Dunkirk,' Christopher Nolan was directing it, and it was a war film. That was all anyone knew.
I served as a Marine sniper for three years, and I believe the film 'American Sniper' depicted what we do perfectly.
It's always been my dream to be in a war film.
