Angelina Jolie have directed five movies and four out of five are about war such as Bosnian war (In the Land of Blood and Honey) and the Cambodian civil war (First They Killed My Father).
During an interview with Variety, she tells, “I think conflict tends to bring out absolutely the worst in our behavior toward each other and often the best, when those who fight against or rise above".
"As artists, a lot of our work is this study of what it is to be human. So these extremes of the human condition are what we’re trying to understand sometimes and are drawn to. Certainly I’m somebody who, as I’ve traveled and done other [humanitarian] work in the field, I’ve always questioned why and how.