I grew up in the home of a political cartoonist, so I was a junkie for politics. — Rod Lurie Grew Copy Share Image
You will never - and I mean never - be able to figure out if I was an Obama guy or a… — Rod Lurie Figure Copy Share Image
We need to get young people involved in the running of this country. — Rod Lurie Country 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 Awards Copy Share Image
'Nothing But the Truth' is a journalistic thriller that is set during the end of days for print media. — Rod Lurie Days Copy Share Image
Sometimes, anonymous sources, when merely stating opinions or running a smear campaign, are certainly cowards. — Rod Lurie Anonymous Copy Share Image
You learn quite a bit about your film from test screening audiences. — Rod Lurie About Copy Share Image
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 Dogs Copy Share Image
I loved going to the movies, especially when I was a teenager in the seventies. How couldn't you in what was perhaps… — Rod Lurie Cinema Copy Share Image
As for Kate Bosworth, I've always admired her. I watched her in a movie called 'Girl in the Park,' which has never… — Rod Lurie Acting Copy Share Image
Sam Peckinpah's movies probably say more about him than anybody's body of work says about that person. There are running themes in… — Rod Lurie Body 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 Film 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 Documentary Copy Share Image
I think that 'Straw Dogs' as a story is eminently re-makable. It can be modernized and Americanized without a problem and without… — Rod Lurie Giving Copy Share Image
Some nights I lie awake at night thinking, 'What's going to stop someone from smashing a chair through my window and coming… — Rod Lurie Awake at night Copy Share Image
I promise that if there was no Hillary Clinton, there would still be a 'Commander in Chief' - I want to have… — Rod Lurie Commander in chief Copy Share Image
I still viewed myself as a reviewer when I was on radio. Was it appropriate for me? I think the answer is… — Rod Lurie Easy Copy Share Image
There was never a day at West Point where I didn't ask myself, 'Where would I put the camera?' — Rod Lurie Camera Copy Share Image
I remember watching movies like 'Fatal Attraction' and watching the audience go bananas at the end of the film. — Rod Lurie Cinema Copy Share Image
The United States military is probably the most socialistic institution in the United States. — Rod Lurie Military Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm equipped enough to be giving anyone a civics lesson or any kind of message. — Rod Lurie Civics 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 Eye Copy Share Image
I came to the conviction that film criticism, in and of itself, was an art. — Rod Lurie Art Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, in this country, when we have the opportunity to be bigots in private, we take it every time. — Rod Lurie Bigots Copy Share Image
Rehearsing is more about blocking in the case of movies, I think, and blocking, of course, is very important to the beauty… — Rod Lurie Beauty Copy Share Image
The fight to get a shield law barring the government from being able to jail journalists is itself a non-partisan battle. — Rod Lurie Battle Copy Share Image
Take a look at Mila Kunis. When you see her performance in 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall,' you see a beauty there, and also… — Rod Lurie Beauty Copy Share Image
The freer a society becomes, the freer its arts can flourish and be exported. — Rod Lurie Art Copy Share Image
I admire how Tarantino finds music that's semifamiliar and not famous: undiscovered gems. — Rod Lurie Admire Copy Share Image
What makes a man is when you go against your own instincts to do to the right thing. — Rod Lurie Go Copy Share Image
The election of Obama will say as much about the American people as it does about Obama himself - that our Declaration… — Rod Lurie American Copy Share Image
What actor doesn't want to walk around a set and be called 'Mr. President?' Playing POTUS is a kind of rite of… — Rod Lurie Actor Copy Share Image
The way that one feels about the story line of 'Deterrence' can tell us, I believe, about each person's conservatism or liberalism… — Rod Lurie Believe Copy Share Image
The common denominator of the great women leaders in the world - Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir - is that they're… — Rod Lurie Common denominator Copy Share Image
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… — Rod Lurie Action 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 Box office Copy Share Image
As much as I like Michael Moore - and I'm on the same political side as him - I think his documentaries… — Rod Lurie Documentaries Copy Share Image
Somebody - and I'm going to guess it was Hitchcock - once said that everyone has their reasons. If you remember that,… — Rod Lurie Average Copy Share Image
I have to admit that all of us creatively involved with 'Commander' absolutely intended to put the term 'Madam President' into the… — Rod Lurie Absolutely Copy Share Image
Now, I don't know about my peers, but I get nervous - okay, I genuinely freak out - when an actor starts… — Rod Lurie Accent Copy Share Image
