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" 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. "

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" 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

True

Be True

Politics

" Sometimes, anonymous sources, when merely stating opinions or running a smear campaign, are certainly cowards. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There's a difference between 'political films' and 'films about Iraq.' "

" Take a look at Mila Kunis. When you see her performance in 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall,' you see a beauty there, and also a sadness. "

" People tend to forget about nuclear weapons. We think they are going to remain in silos for the rest of time. As long as they exist, they are going to be used. "

" 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.' "

" I've been a huge fan of Steven Bochco's for over two decades. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When you do a freeze frame, you have the opportunity to find the exact shot that you want - no guessing. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" The freer a society becomes, the freer its arts can flourish and be exported. "

" I met Joan Allen at an L.A. Film Critics Awards' dinner, and I said, 'I want to write a movie for you.' "

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

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

Rod Lurie

Really

Iconoclastic

" 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. "

" 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. "