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Tommy Lee Jones

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.

Tommy Lee Jones

Patriotism

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Tommy Lee Jones is saying that just because a movie is about the military doesn't guarantee it will be popular, so filmmakers don't focus only on that genre. However, he points out that a shared sense of patriotism is something that unites all Americans, regardless of other differences.

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