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Rod Lurie
Rod Lurie
Israeli Director
Born: May 15, 1962
About Dogs People Think Will You
Related authors: Alfred Hitchcock David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen
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
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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
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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
Watergate Sometimes Stated Enron Papers Must Pentagon Only Remain Simply Journalists Protect Anonymous Sources Get Confidential Order Information Who Even Lives Careers
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
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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
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The United States military is probably the most socialistic institution in the United States. Rod Lurie
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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
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When I was a kid, my heroes were not baseball players nor movie stars. My knights in shining armor were film critics. Rod Lurie
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I loved going to the movies, especially when I was a teenager in the seventies. How couldn't you in what was perhaps the greatest era of auteur cinema? Rod Lurie
You Cinema Teenager Seventies Perhaps Greatest How Era Going Loved Movies
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
Girl Seen Released Admired Park Never Had Always Been Movie Which Acting Kate Even Her Watched Copy
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
Myself Me You Shopping Will Think Appropriate Easy Find Only Allowed He Studio Because Answer Said Still Yeah Affect Reviewer Reviewing Any Script Inappropriate Us Viewed Radio Film
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
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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
Truth Truth Is Own Our Spin Indication Fact Had Mere Taking Putting Making Dogs Very Than Sam Dustin Hoffman Different James Story Straw Film
I think people were a little premature in writing off violent movies. They're going to continue being made, and audiences will continue going to see them. Rod Lurie
People Writing Will Made Think See Audiences Were Continue Off Going Being Little Movies Them Premature Violent
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
Work Job Men Young Think Our Liberals Soldiers Latinos Minorities Blacks Directly Empathize Know Most Advise Democrats Officers Them Us Help Reason
'Commander in Chief' became a show not about why we should have a woman president but why we should not have a woman president. Rod Lurie
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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 not much of a man. Rod Lurie
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There's a difference between 'political films' and 'films about Iraq.' Rod Lurie
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My mom is an exceptionally wise and kind person. Rod Lurie
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Unfortunately, in this country, when we have the opportunity to be bigots in private, we take it every time. Rod Lurie
Time Opportunity Country Every Every Time Take Private Unfortunately Bigots
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
History Past Films Changed Seem Seems Quaint Like Contender Trump The History Of Whether Interest Asking Really Connecting Compared Things Present
I grew up in the home of a political cartoonist, so I was a junkie for politics. Rod Lurie
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Take a look at Mila Kunis. When you see her performance in 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall,' you see a beauty there, and also a sadness. Rod Lurie
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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
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It's very exciting to continue to work at DreamWorks. Rod Lurie
Work Dreamworks Exciting Continue Very
I grew up with an infestation of politics. I'm just nuts about it. It's our form of gladiators in the arena, only they are not in quite as good a shape. Rod Lurie
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