The freer a society becomes, the freer its arts can flourish and be exported. — Rod Lurie Art 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
Just because the boogeyman of the Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore, it doesn't mean the world is living angelically. — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
I shot part of 'Resurrecting the Champ' in Denver, and I spent a summer going to survival school in Colorado Springs. — Rod Lurie Colorado Copy Share Image
'Commander in Chief' became a show not about why we should have a woman president but why we should not have a… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
The truth is that when a man has a child, and it's a girl, and he doesn't change as a man, he's… — Rod Lurie Change 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
I fell in love with 'Ben Hur' when I was 8 years old, and I just knew I had to be involved… — Rod Lurie Ben hur 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 think people were a little premature in writing off violent movies. They're going to continue being made, and audiences will continue… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
'Monsters of God' isn't just a series close to my heart; it is my heart, and I am very much looking forward… — Rod Lurie Close to my heart Copy Share Image
The First Amendment is the First Amendment for a reason - our most cherished right. But it often creates muddy and uncomfortable… — Rod Lurie Amendment 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'm sure when 'Midnight Cowboy' came out, it took a couple of minutes to get used to the voice and the look… — Rod Lurie Cowboy Copy Share Image
'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 Filmmaker Copy Share Image
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 Bloggers Copy Share Image
When you do a freeze frame, you have the opportunity to find the exact shot that you want - no guessing. — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
I believe Sam Peckinpah is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, and I hold him in high regard. — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
I do have this belief that we all have a chance to be great, beautiful people based on how we are raised… — Rod Lurie Beautiful Copy Share Image
'Nothing But the Truth' is a journalistic thriller that is set during the end of days for print media. — Rod Lurie 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 will never - and I mean never - be able to figure out if I was an Obama guy or a… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
I grew up in the home of a political cartoonist, so I was a junkie for politics. — Rod Lurie 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 Copy Share Image
Finding out you're able to do something doesn't necessarily mean you want to do it. — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
No matter how far they rise, women never stop being the caregiver. At the end of the day, women bear the emotional… — Rod Lurie Caregiver 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 Film 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 Attitude Copy Share Image
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 Experience Copy Share Image
I think our nation cannot stomach the notion of a woman in sexual terms whatsoever: that we are so puritanical that we… — 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
You learn quite a bit about your film from test screening audiences. With both comedies and movies that are intense, you need… — Rod Lurie Audience 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
Former soldiers will almost always gravitate to the anti-war party. This happens for obvious reasons. The men who have been in battle… — Rod Lurie 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
