In a 12-minute long video posted by the American Film Institute on Wednesday, the 69-year-old filmmaker addressed the "controversy" of whether or not his film Die Hard serves as a Christmas movie.

When someone hacks into the computers at the FBI's Cyber Crime Division; the Director decides to round up all the hackers who could have done this. When he's told that because it's the 4th of July ...

NYPD cop John McClane goes on a Christmas vacation to visit his wife Holly in Los Angeles where she works for the Nakatomi Corporation. While they are at the Nakatomi headquarters for a Christmas ...