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All Quotes by author - Rod Lurie

" 'All the President's Men' is a movie that has a very personal place for me because it made me want to be a journalist, and then it made me want to be a filmmaker. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Classically, throughout all of our history, the movies in times of crisis have turned to military figures as heroes, because they are the guardians of our nation. "

" Every filmmaker wants to get their audience talking. "

" Every weekend from, like, 1974 to 1978, I'd trudge over to the Greenwich library, which gathered up almost every major newspaper in the country. I would sit there all day long and read and read and read the reviews. I remember being twelve or thirteen and writing to Judith Crist, Pauline Kael, and Roger Ebert. "

" Finding out you're able to do something doesn't necessarily mean you want to do it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Hollywood is enamored of the 20- to 30-year-old actress, but by the very nature of the life experience of the character, the roles cannot be that rich. You can only have Angelina Jolie in a mental hospital so many times. "

" I admire how Tarantino finds music that's semifamiliar and not famous: undiscovered gems. "

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

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

" I came to the conviction that film criticism, in and of itself, was an art. "

" I can be accused of being acerbic as a critic and writer. "

" I can't stand to see myself on TV. "

" 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. "

" I don't know a nicer guy in the world than Alan Alda. "

" I don't think I'm equipped enough to be giving anyone a civics lesson or any kind of message. "

" 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. "

" If I have to answer one more time, 'Why did you want to remake 'Straw Dogs?'' with the emphasis on the word 'why,' I'm going to flip out. "

" If you look at the greatest performances of women, they're usually older... Anne Bancroft in 'The Graduate,' Kathy Bates in 'Misery.' It's a matter of characters having a life experience that makes them interesting. "

" I grew up during Watergate. I was enamored of the study of that. "

" I grew up in the home of a political cartoonist, so I was a junkie for politics. "

" 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. "

" I have to admit that all of us creatively involved with 'Commander' absolutely intended to put the term 'Madam President' into the zeitgeist. I can't deny it. "

" I'll tell you this: you can look at all the masculine toughies you want - the Ben Roethlisbergers, the Russell Crowes, the David Petraeuses - but if you want to look at what a man should be - persevering, honest, a person who manifests his intellect into action - you need look no further than Roger Ebert. "

" I look at 'Straw Dogs' as a very imperfect movie. It's a little bit slow, and its themes are a little bit murky. "

" 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? "

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