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" 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. "

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" We make movies to endorse our own personal feelings. I am not, in fact, a documentary filmmaker. I've got my personal beliefs, and I'm ready to put them out on the table. "

Rod Lurie

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Personal

" 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. "

" I often found that my favorite scene that I shoot is often one that I cut out, like in 'The Last Castle' and 'The Contender.' If you look at the deleted scenes, some of the best scenes never made it into the film. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I think that maybe human beings are conditioned to violence. "

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

" Whenever you make a movie, when it's done, as a filmmaker, you never sit there and say, 'Boy, I really got that right.' It's, 'Where did I screw up?' "

" The United States military is probably the most socialistic institution in the United States. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

Rod Lurie

Him

Political

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

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

" 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. "

" I remember watching movies like 'Fatal Attraction' and watching the audience go bananas at the end of the film. "

" 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? "

" The fight to get a shield law barring the government from being able to jail journalists is itself a non-partisan battle. "

" When I was a kid, my heroes were not baseball players nor movie stars. My knights in shining armor were film critics. "

" I really like iconoclastic casting. I really do. "

Rod Lurie

Really

Iconoclastic

" 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. "

Rod Lurie

People

Standing

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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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" 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. "

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

" Every filmmaker wants to get their audience talking. "

" What makes a man is when you go against your own instincts to do to the right thing. "

" 'Monsters of God' isn't just a series close to my heart; it is my heart, and I am very much looking forward to working with my fantastic team in New Mexico to create a top-notch series. "