When you create a movie, you create something in your image.
The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact.
War scenes are less difficult than love scenes.
I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.
When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation.
When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.