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When you make a movie like 'Straw Dogs,' your goal is to have people's eyes remain glued to the screen. It serves you no purpose to turn away from the screen.
Rod Lurie / Director
Purpose
Dogs
Glued
Eyes People Your
Remain
Screen
Serve
Straw
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I have to admit that all of us creatively involved with 'Commander' absolutely intended to put the term 'Madam President' into the zeitgeist. I can't deny it.
Rod Lurie / Director
Deny
Involved
President
Term
Zeitgeist
Absolutely
Admit
Commander
Creatively
Intended
Madam
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Marc Frydman and I are overwhelmed by the confidence Touchstone Television has shown in us, and we're thrilled to continue trying to knock 'em out of the park.
Rod Lurie / Director
Confidence
Overwhelmed
Marc
Park
Shown
Thrilled
Touchstone
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People tend to forget about nuclear weapons. We think they are going to remain in silos for the rest of time. As long as they exist, they are going to be used.
Rod Lurie / Director
Nuclear
Weapons
Time Long People
Exist
Remain
Tend
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I fell in love with 'Ben Hur' when I was 8 years old, and I just knew I had to be involved in movies, even if I was the guy who melted the butter on the popcorn.
Rod Lurie / Director
Involved
Popcorn
Love Movies Old
Ben
Butter
Melted
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I promise that if there was no Hillary Clinton, there would still be a 'Commander in Chief' - I want to have a hit show that people enjoy, and really, that's it.
Rod Lurie / Director
Clinton
Promise
Chief
Commander
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
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Classically, throughout all of our history, the movies in times of crisis have turned to military figures as heroes, because they are the guardians of our nation.
Rod Lurie / Director
Crisis
Figures
Military
Heroes
Guardians
Throughout
Turned
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'All the President's Men' is a movie that has a very personal place for me because it made me want to be a journalist, and then it made me want to be a filmmaker.
Rod Lurie / Director
Filmmaker
Journalist
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I think that 'Straw Dogs' as a story is eminently re-makable. It can be modernized and Americanized without a problem and without giving up any artistic integrity.
Rod Lurie / Director
Artistic
Giving Up
Integrity
Americanized
Dogs
Straw
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We make movies to endorse our own personal feelings. I am not, in fact, a documentary filmmaker. I've got my personal beliefs, and I'm ready to put them out on the table.
Rod Lurie / Director
Filmmaker
Beliefs
Documentary
Endorse
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What actor doesn't want to walk around a set and be called 'Mr. President?' Playing POTUS is a kind of rite of passage among American actors - our version of playing Hamlet.
Rod Lurie / Director
Rite
Version
Mr
Hamlet
Passage
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Somebody - and I'm going to guess it was Hitchcock - once said that everyone has their reasons. If you remember that, as a writer, you'll write better than average villains.
Rod Lurie / Director
Hitchcock
Villains
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I'm sure when 'Midnight Cowboy' came out, it took a couple of minutes to get used to the voice and the look of Dustin Hoffman, or to even recognize that it was Dustin Hoffman.
Rod Lurie / Director
Cowboy
Midnight
Dustin Hoffman
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You learn quite a bit about your film from test screening audiences. With both comedies and movies that are intense, you need to calibrate the film and see how audiences react.
Rod Lurie / Director
Comedy
Needs
Tests
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The way that one feels about the story line of 'Deterrence' can tell us, I believe, about each person's conservatism or liberalism and precisely how tolerant he or she is of racism.
Rod Lurie / Director
Conservatism
Deterrence
Liberalism
Racism
He Or She
Believe Way I Believe
Precisely
Tolerant
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There was scarcely a month during 1988 when Thomas Harris' novel, 'The Silence Of The Lambs,' was not on or around the top of the 'New York Times' list of America's bestselling books.
Rod Lurie / Director
Lambs
New York Times
Silence
Month
Harris
Scarcely
Thomas
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'Monsters of God' isn't just a series close to my heart; it is my heart, and I am very much looking forward to working with my fantastic team in New Mexico to create a top-notch series.
Rod Lurie / Director
Looking Forward
Mexico
Monsters
New Mexico
Top Notch
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I was just nine years old when 'Straw Dogs' came out, so I can't really speak to the women of the time, but I can tell you that the women of 2011 are not put-upon, and they're not victims.
Rod Lurie / Director
Dogs
Straw
Victims
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I think our nation cannot stomach the notion of a woman in sexual terms whatsoever: that we are so puritanical that we cannot dismiss the notion of sex from our minds when it comes to women.
Rod Lurie / Director
Notion
Stomach
Dismiss
Sexual
Puritanical
We Cannot
Whatsoever
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Former soldiers will almost always gravitate to the anti-war party. This happens for obvious reasons. The men who have been in battle tend not to romanticize it and tend not to take it flippantly.
Rod Lurie / Director
Anti War
Battle
Former
Obvious
Men Always Will
Gravitate
Soldiers
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Now, I don't know about my peers, but I get nervous - okay, I genuinely freak out - when an actor starts trying on a Southern accent. That's for Brits trying to find the easiest way to sound American.
Rod Lurie / Director
Brits
Freak
Nervous
Okay
Peers
Sound
Southern Accent
Accent
Way Find Know
Way Find Trying
Genuinely
Easiest
Easiest Way
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There seems to be an interest in connecting the history of the past to the present and asking whether things have really changed. Films like 'The Contender' and 'Bulworth' seem quaint compared with Trump!
Rod Lurie / Director
Connecting
Quaint
Contender
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I suppose when any movie dealing with politics is released, there is a knee-jerk assumption that it is propelled by a liberal agenda. That may be true most of the time, but not with 'Nothing but the Truth.'
Rod Lurie / Director
Assumption
Be True
Liberal
Released
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When reporters are in the business of obtaining hard facts that service the free flow of information, journalists should have a right to obtain that information without fear of personal ruin or incarceration.
Rod Lurie / Director
Flow
Incarceration
Reporters
Free Flow
Journalists
Obtain
Ruin
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The First Amendment is the First Amendment for a reason - our most cherished right. But it often creates muddy and uncomfortable situations, ones that are the source of great drama and national self-reflection.
Rod Lurie / Director
First Amendment
Muddy
Uncomfortable
Amendment
Cherished
Creates
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As for Kate Bosworth, I've always admired her. I watched her in a movie called 'Girl in the Park,' which has never been released - not even on DVD. I had a copy, and it was bravura acting I had not seen from her.
Rod Lurie / Director
Girl
Movie
Acting
Admired
Seen
Watched
Copy
Always Acting Never
Park
Released
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I often found that my favorite scene that I shoot is often one that I cut out, like in 'The Last Castle' and 'The Contender.' If you look at the deleted scenes, some of the best scenes never made it into the film.
Rod Lurie / Director
Castle
Contender
Deleted
Scenes
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If you look at the greatest performances of women, they're usually older... Anne Bancroft in 'The Graduate,' Kathy Bates in 'Misery.' It's a matter of characters having a life experience that makes them interesting.
Rod Lurie / Director
Life Experience
Misery
Life Experience Women
Anne
Graduate
Performance
The Graduate
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Sam Peckinpah's movies probably say more about him than anybody's body of work says about that person. There are running themes in his films that I find eminently fascinating, disturbing, exhausting, and exhilarating.
Rod Lurie / Director
Running
Movies
Disturbing
Exhausting
Exhilarating
Fascinating
Anybody
Films
Sam
Says
Themes
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Hollywood is enamored of the 20- to 30-year-old actress, but by the very nature of the life experience of the character, the roles cannot be that rich. You can only have Angelina Jolie in a mental hospital so many times.
Rod Lurie / Director
Enamored
Life Experience
Life Nature Experience
Angelina Jolie
Hospital
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I thought I'd give myself 10 years as an entertainment journalist and build up so much clout that there was no way Hollywood could ignore me when I started delivering scripts. Little did I know they were very good at ignoring it.
Rod Lurie / Director
Clout
Delivering
Entertainment
Hollywood
Journalist
Scripts
Build
Good Myself Me
Ignore
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When you hire Sam Jackson, he'll figure out the character, and he'll figure out the character's look, and he'll provide it to you. With Sam Jackson, you basically yell 'action', you go get a sandwich, and you come back and yell 'cut.'
Rod Lurie / Director
Hire
Jackson
Sam
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Anything about Iraq is a death sentence at the box office... You can't make movies about an unpopular war while the war is still going on - people don't want to pay to get depressed, though they sometimes will go to movies to get educated.
Rod Lurie / Director
Box Office
Educated
Unpopular
Depressed
Sentence
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The ability of the press to print their stories without the government trying to get them to betray their sources is as essential to a free press as the ink it is printed with. Otherwise, who will hold accountable those who hold power over us?
Rod Lurie / Director
Betray
Free Press
Ink
Print
Power Government Free
Accountable
Sources
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The point of remaking 'Straw Dogs' is not to replicate the philosophies of Sam Peckinpah at all. What made that film singular was the attitude that he brought to the characters. Oddly enough, that's the one thing that I really wanted to change.
Rod Lurie / Director
Attitude
Film
One Thing
Replicate
Wanted
Brought
Dogs
Oddly
Philosophies
Point
Sam
Singular
Straw
The One Thing
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Some nights I lie awake at night thinking, 'What's going to stop someone from smashing a chair through my window and coming in the house at two in the morning?' It is very unnerving. It's a realistic scare, which is the worst kind of scare that you could have.
Rod Lurie / Director
Awake
Realistic
Scare
Smashing
Window
Worst Kind
Nights
Chair
Unnerving
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Most people with whom I talk, often quite educated, think the military is made up of knife-between-the-teeth grunts, uneducated robots without any kind of free will whatsoever - people who goose step to Republican philosophy and particularly the Bush cowboy mentality.
Rod Lurie / Director
Cowboy
Educated
Free Will
Grunt
Made
Mentality
Military
Robots
Uneducated
Talk
Step People Will
Free
Quite
Bush
Often
Particularly
Goose
Step
Whatsoever
Whom
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The election of Obama will say as much about the American people as it does about Obama himself - that our Declaration of Independence means what it says in its opening lines, that being the world's greatest nation means that we offer the world's greatest opportunities.
Rod Lurie / Director
Independence
Declaration
Election
Opening
World People Will
American People
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I think that most of the young officers I know are leftists and liberals and Democrats. And the reason is this: All of our soldiers, the men that work for us directly, are minorities - blacks or Latinos. And we empathize with them. Our job is to advise them and help them.
Rod Lurie / Director
Advise
Minorities
Officers
Blacks
Democrats
Directly
Empathize
Latinos
Liberals
Soldiers
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Simply stated, sometimes journalists can only get their information from informants who must remain anonymous in order to protect their careers and sometimes even their lives: Watergate: Confidential sources. The Pentagon Papers: Confidential sources. Enron: Confidential sources.
Rod Lurie / Director
Careers
Confidential
Enron
Information
Papers
Pentagon
Protect
Watergate
Anonymous
Simply
Journalists
Remain
Sources
Stated
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I still viewed myself as a reviewer when I was on radio. Was it appropriate for me? I think the answer is it's only inappropriate if I allowed it to affect my film reviewing. I don't think you will find any studio that said, 'Yeah, he went easy on us because he was shopping a script.'
Rod Lurie / Director
Appropriate
Easy
Film
Inappropriate
Radio
Shopping
Yeah
Myself Me Will
Affect
Allowed
Studio
Reviewer
Script
Viewed
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The truth is that we're not remaking Sam Peckinpah's 'Straw Dogs,' we're making 'Straw Dogs.' We're taking this story, and we're putting our own spin on it. The mere fact that I have James Marsden in it is an indication that it's a very different film than the one that had Dustin Hoffman in it.
Rod Lurie / Director
Truth
Film
Indication
Mere
Truth Is
Dogs
Dustin Hoffman
Fact
James
Making
Putting
Sam
Spin
Story
Straw
Taking
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The truth is that I have never created a president to push a political point of view. I am often looking to create aspirational characters; that's true. But, you know, in the end, it is really up to the actor in front of the presidential seal to decide exactly what kind of president you're going to get.
Rod Lurie / Director
Point Of View
Presidential
Exactly What
In The End
Seal
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I'll tell you this: you can look at all the masculine toughies you want - the Ben Roethlisbergers, the Russell Crowes, the David Petraeuses - but if you want to look at what a man should be - persevering, honest, a person who manifests his intellect into action - you need look no further than Roger Ebert.
Rod Lurie / Director
Action
Honest
Intellect
Masculine
Roger
David
Ben
Further
Persevering
Russell
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We are viewed by the world as a quasi-racist state in which we allow natural disasters to obliterate our minority community, in which our penal system is designed to treat blacks unfairly, and in which we let the medical and educational systems in our ghettos fester to the level of some third-world countries.
Rod Lurie / Director
Medical
Educational
Blacks
Designed
Disasters
Fester
Minority
Natural Disasters
Obliterate
Systems
Unfairly
Viewed
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Every weekend from, like, 1974 to 1978, I'd trudge over to the Greenwich library, which gathered up almost every major newspaper in the country. I would sit there all day long and read and read and read the reviews. I remember being twelve or thirteen and writing to Judith Crist, Pauline Kael, and Roger Ebert.
Rod Lurie / Director
Greenwich
Roger
Thirteen
Twelve
All Day
Gathered
Newspaper
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A reckoning is coming on the state of the internet journalism, because right now, the way it's set up, there is so much room for libel to squeak through that you're going to see...they're going to rewrite the rule book on journalism very soon. They have to, because the bloggers are getting away with so much rumor-mongering about public officials and even private figures because they don't have editors and they don't have fact checkers and they don't have lawyers. There is going to be a price to pay somewhere down the line.
Rod Lurie / Director
Book
Editors
Rumor
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