Rod Lurie Quotes

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Rod Lurie

Profession : Director

Birth : May 15, 1962

There's no need to make any film. The word 'need' is pretty strong. But if there's a purpose behind making the film, there can be a justification for it.

Rod Lurie

I think that maybe human beings are conditioned to violence.

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There are a lot of westerns that deal with people standing up for their principles, and that is the predominant theme that has been in my films.

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Sam Peckinpah's movies probably say more about him than anybody's body of work says about that person. There are running themes in his films that I find eminently fascinating, disturbing, exhausting, and exhilarating.

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I fell in love with 'Ben Hur' when I was 8 years old, and I just knew I had to be involved in movies, even if I was the guy who melted the butter on the popcorn.

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I thought I'd give myself 10 years as an entertainment journalist and build up so much clout that there was no way Hollywood could ignore me when I started delivering scripts. Little did I know they were very good at ignoring it.

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

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I shot part of 'Resurrecting the Champ' in Denver, and I spent a summer going to survival school in Colorado Springs.

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I really like iconoclastic casting. I really do.

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As much as I like Michael Moore - and I'm on the same political side as him - I think his documentaries are really a batch of manipulations and lies.

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Every filmmaker wants to get their audience talking.

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

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I believe Sam Peckinpah is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, and I hold him in high regard.

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There was scarcely a month during 1988 when Thomas Harris' novel, 'The Silence Of The Lambs,' was not on or around the top of the 'New York Times' list of America's bestselling books.

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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.

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What actor doesn't want to walk around a set and be called 'Mr. President?' Playing POTUS is a kind of rite of passage among American actors - our version of playing Hamlet.

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Now, I don't know about my peers, but I get nervous - okay, I genuinely freak out - when an actor starts trying on a Southern accent. That's for Brits trying to find the easiest way to sound American.

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You will never - and I mean never - be able to figure out if I was an Obama guy or a Hillary guy.

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Trump is the opposite of everything Reagan was.

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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.

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