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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. "
Rod Lurie
Movies
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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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" Just because the boogeyman of the Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore, it doesn't mean the world is living angelically. "
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" Take a look at Mila Kunis. When you see her performance in 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall,' you see a beauty there, and also a sadness. "
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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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Myself
" I promise that if there was no Hillary Clinton, there would still be a 'Commander in Chief' - I want to have a hit show that people enjoy, and really, that's it. "
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Want
Enjoy
Show
" 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. "
Rod Lurie
Battle
Soldiers
Party
" The United States military is probably the most socialistic institution in the United States. "
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Most
Military
United States
" 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
People
Belief
" 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
World
Election
People
" The freer a society becomes, the freer its arts can flourish and be exported. "
Rod Lurie
Arts
Flourish
Freer
" 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
Office
" I grew up in the home of a political cartoonist, so I was a junkie for politics. "
Rod Lurie
Politics
Grew
Home
" 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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Him
Like
Political
" 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
Treat
Community
Medical
" 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
Behind
Need
Purpose
" 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? "
Rod Lurie
Seventies
Loved
Cinema
" I admire how Tarantino finds music that's semifamiliar and not famous: undiscovered gems. "
Rod Lurie
How
Admire
Famous
" I'm sure when 'Midnight Cowboy' came out, it took a couple of minutes to get used to the voice and the look of Dustin Hoffman, or to even recognize that it was Dustin Hoffman. "
Rod Lurie
Out
Voice
Look
" 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. "
Rod Lurie
Look
Best
Castle
" 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?' "
Rod Lurie
You
Say
Right
" When you make a movie like 'Straw Dogs,' your goal is to have people's eyes remain glued to the screen. It serves you no purpose to turn away from the screen. "
Rod Lurie
Turn
Purpose
Goal
" I believe Sam Peckinpah is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, and I hold him in high regard. "
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Him
Time
Sam
" I can be accused of being acerbic as a critic and writer. "
Rod Lurie
I Can
Writer
Critic
" Rehearsing is more about blocking in the case of movies, I think, and blocking, of course, is very important to the beauty of a scene. "
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Think
Movies
More
" The First Amendment is the First Amendment for a reason - our most cherished right. But it often creates muddy and uncomfortable situations, ones that are the source of great drama and national self-reflection. "
Rod Lurie
Great
Uncomfortable
Reason
" 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.' "
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Easy
You
Think
" The common denominator of the great women leaders in the world - Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir - is that they're dramatically nonsexual. "
Rod Lurie
Common
Great
Leaders
" Unfortunately, in this country, when we have the opportunity to be bigots in private, we take it every time. "
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Time
Take
Opportunity
" I remember watching movies like 'Fatal Attraction' and watching the audience go bananas at the end of the film. "
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Audience
Movies
Remember
" Every filmmaker wants to get their audience talking. "
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Wants
Audience
Talking