Rod Lurie

I am a liberal. I have always been a liberal.

— Rod Lurie

Trump is the opposite of everything Reagan was.

— Rod Lurie

I don't know a nicer guy in the world than Alan Alda.

— Rod Lurie

I think that maybe human beings are conditioned to violence.

— Rod Lurie

My mom is an exceptionally wise and kind person.

— Rod Lurie

I grew up during Watergate. I was enamored of the study of that.

— Rod Lurie

I can be accused of being acerbic as a critic and writer.

— Rod Lurie

I can't stand to see myself on TV.

— Rod Lurie

Take a look at Mila Kunis. When you see her performance in 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall,' you see a beauty there, and also…

— Rod Lurie

The freer a society becomes, the freer its arts can flourish and be exported.

— Rod Lurie

Rehearsing is more about blocking in the case of movies, I think, and blocking, of course, is very important to the beauty…

— Rod Lurie

The fight to get a shield law barring the government from being able to jail journalists is itself a non-partisan battle.

— Rod Lurie

What makes a man is when you go against your own instincts to do to the right thing.

— Rod Lurie

I admire how Tarantino finds music that's semifamiliar and not famous: undiscovered gems.

— Rod Lurie

There was never a day at West Point where I didn't ask myself, 'Where would I put the camera?'

— Rod Lurie

I remember watching movies like 'Fatal Attraction' and watching the audience go bananas at the end of the film.

— Rod Lurie

I often found that my favorite scene that I shoot is often one that I cut out, like in 'The Last Castle'…

— Rod Lurie

You learn quite a bit about your film from test screening audiences. With both comedies and movies that are intense, you need…

— Rod Lurie

If I have to answer one more time, 'Why did you want to remake 'Straw Dogs?'' with the emphasis on the word…

— Rod Lurie

I'm sure when 'Midnight Cowboy' came out, it took a couple of minutes to get used to the voice and the look…

— Rod Lurie

'All the President's Men' is a movie that has a very personal place for me because it made me want to be…

— Rod Lurie

The First Amendment is the First Amendment for a reason - our most cherished right. But it often creates muddy and uncomfortable…

— Rod Lurie

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

If you look at the greatest performances of women, they're usually older... Anne Bancroft in 'The Graduate,' Kathy Bates in 'Misery.' It's…

— Rod Lurie

We are viewed by the world as a quasi-racist state in which we allow natural disasters to obliterate our minority community, in…

— Rod Lurie

The truth is that I have never created a president to push a political point of view. I am often looking to…

— Rod Lurie

I still viewed myself as a reviewer when I was on radio. Was it appropriate for me? I think the answer is…

— Rod Lurie

Every weekend from, like, 1974 to 1978, I'd trudge over to the Greenwich library, which gathered up almost every major newspaper in…

— Rod Lurie

I think that most of the young officers I know are leftists and liberals and Democrats. And the reason is this: All…

— Rod Lurie

Simply stated, sometimes journalists can only get their information from informants who must remain anonymous in order to protect their careers and…

— Rod Lurie

A reckoning is coming on the state of the internet journalism, because right now, the way it's set up, there is so…

— Rod Lurie

I'll tell you this: you can look at all the masculine toughies you want - the Ben Roethlisbergers, the Russell Crowes, the…

— Rod Lurie

I've been a huge fan of Steven Bochco's for over two decades.

— Rod Lurie

Every filmmaker wants to get their audience talking.

— Rod Lurie

It's very exciting to continue to work at DreamWorks.

— Rod Lurie

I think that man is conditioned to violence.

— Rod Lurie

I really like iconoclastic casting. I really do.

— Rod Lurie

I look at 'Straw Dogs' as a very imperfect movie. It's a little bit slow, and its themes are a little bit…

— Rod Lurie

I came to the conviction that film criticism, in and of itself, was an art.

— Rod Lurie

Unfortunately, in this country, when we have the opportunity to be bigots in private, we take it every time.

— Rod Lurie