I came to the conviction that film criticism, in and of itself, was an art. — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
I met Joan Allen at an L.A. Film Critics Awards' dinner, and I said, 'I want to write a movie for you.' — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
You learn quite a bit about your film from test screening audiences. With both comedies and movies that are intense, you need… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
If I have to answer one more time, 'Why did you want to remake 'Straw Dogs?'' with the emphasis on the word… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
Whenever you make a movie, when it's done, as a filmmaker, you never sit there and say, 'Boy, I really got that… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
I suppose when any movie dealing with politics is released, there is a knee-jerk assumption that it is propelled by a liberal… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
I remember watching movies like 'Fatal Attraction' and watching the audience go bananas at the end of the film. — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
There seems to be an interest in connecting the history of the past to the present and asking whether things have really… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
I want to have a movie where people's eyes are glued to the screen, not when they're running from the screen. — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
We make movies to endorse our own personal feelings. I am not, in fact, a documentary filmmaker. I've got my personal beliefs,… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
I often found that my favorite scene that I shoot is often one that I cut out, like in 'The Last Castle'… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
The point of remaking 'Straw Dogs' is not to replicate the philosophies of Sam Peckinpah at all. What made that film singular… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
Anything about Iraq is a death sentence at the box office... You can't make movies about an unpopular war while the war… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
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… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
There's no need to make any film. The word 'need' is pretty strong. But if there's a purpose behind making the film,… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, my heroes were not baseball players nor movie stars. My knights in shining armor were film critics. — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
In my mind, I'm no longer daunted by the idea of a remake. In fact, I now look at it as a… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
There was scarcely a month during 1988 when Thomas Harris' novel, 'The Silence Of The Lambs,' was not on or around the top of… — Rod Lurie Copy Share
Now, I don't know about my peers, but I get nervous - okay, I genuinely freak out - when an actor starts trying on… — Rod Lurie Copy Share
I admire how Tarantino finds music that's semifamiliar and not famous: undiscovered gems. — Rod Lurie Copy Share
Simply stated, sometimes journalists can only get their information from informants who must remain anonymous in order to protect their careers and sometimes even… — Rod Lurie Copy Share
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… — Rod Lurie Copy Share
I think that most of the young officers I know are leftists and liberals and Democrats. And the reason is this: All of our… — Rod Lurie Copy Share
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… — Rod Lurie Copy Share
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… — Rod Lurie Copy Share
Sometimes, anonymous sources, when merely stating opinions or running a smear campaign, are certainly cowards. — Rod Lurie Copy Share
I fell in love with 'Ben Hur' when I was 8 years old, and I just knew I had to be involved in movies,… — Rod Lurie Copy Share
I want to have a movie where people's eyes are glued to the screen, not when they're running from the screen. — Rod Lurie Copy Share
I remember watching movies like 'Fatal Attraction' and watching the audience go bananas at the end of the film. — Rod Lurie Copy Share
