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I look at 'Straw Dogs' as a very imperfect movie. It's a little bit slow, and its themes are a little bit murky.
- Rod Lurie
#Little Bit
#Little
#Look
#Slow
#Straw
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 you. With Sam Jackson, you basically yell 'action', you go get a sandwich, and you come back and yell 'cut.'
- Rod Lurie
#Action
#Back
#Character
#Go
#Look
Sometimes, anonymous sources, when merely stating opinions or running a smear campaign, are certainly cowards.
- Rod Lurie
#Campaign
#Cowards
#Opinions
#Sometimes
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
#Acting
#Always
#Copy
#Girl
#Never
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
#Nothing
#Politics
#Time
#True
#Truth
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
#Ability
#Free
#Government
#Power
#Trying
We are viewed by the world as a quasi-racist state in which we allow natural disasters to obliterate our minority community, in which our penal system is designed to treat blacks unfairly, and in which we let the medical and educational systems in our ghettos fester to the level of some third-world countries.
- Rod Lurie
#Community
#Medical
#System
#Treat
#World
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
#Film
#Own
#Story
#Truth Is
#Truth
What makes a man is when you go against your own instincts to do to the right thing.
- Rod Lurie
#Go
#Man
#Own
#Right
#The Right Thing
The truth is that I have never created a president to push a political point of view. I am often looking to create aspirational characters; that's true. But, you know, in the end, it is really up to the actor in front of the presidential seal to decide exactly what kind of president you're going to get.
- Rod Lurie
#I Am
#Looking
#Political
#Truth
#View
He may not have been a good actor, and I personally don't think he was a good president, but I'll tell you this: Ronald Reagan was a helluva character.
- Rod Lurie
#Actor
#Character
#Good Actor
#Good
#Tell
I came to the conviction that film criticism, in and of itself, was an art.
- Rod Lurie
#Art
#Conviction
#Criticism
#Film
#Itself
In my mind, I'm no longer daunted by the idea of a remake. In fact, I now look at it as a genre unto itself - so long as you make it your own.
- Rod Lurie
#Long
#Look
#Mind
#Now
#Own
Some nights I lie awake at night thinking, 'What's going to stop someone from smashing a chair through my window and coming in the house at two in the morning?' It is very unnerving. It's a realistic scare, which is the worst kind of scare that you could have.
- Rod Lurie
#Lie
#Morning
#Night
#Thinking
#Window
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
#Good
#Nuts
#Politics
#Shape
#Up
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 out of the park.
- Rod Lurie
#Confidence
#Continue
#Television
#Trying
I do have this belief that we all have a chance to be great, beautiful people based on how we are raised and our surroundings.
- Rod Lurie
#Beautiful
#Chance
#Great
#Surroundings
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
#Free
#People
#Republican
#Robots
#Step
The election of Obama will say as much about the American people as it does about Obama himself - that our Declaration of Independence means what it says in its opening lines, that being the world's greatest nation means that we offer the world's greatest opportunities.
- Rod Lurie
#American
#Election
#Independence
#World
The point of remaking 'Straw Dogs' is not to replicate the philosophies of Sam Peckinpah at all. What made that film singular was the attitude that he brought to the characters. Oddly enough, that's the one thing that I really wanted to change.
- Rod Lurie
#Attitude
#Change
#Enough
#Film
#Point
Anything about Iraq is a death sentence at the box office... You can't make movies about an unpopular war while the war is still going on - people don't want to pay to get depressed, though they sometimes will go to movies to get educated.
- Rod Lurie
#Death
#Movies
#People
#Sometimes
#War
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