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" I think that most of the young officers I know are leftists and liberals and Democrats. And the reason is this: All of our soldiers, the men that work for us directly, are minorities - blacks or Latinos. And we empathize with them. Our job is to advise them and help them. "

Rod Lurie

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" We need to get young people involved in the running of this country. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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.' "

" No matter how far they rise, women never stop being the caregiver. At the end of the day, women bear the emotional responsibility for their families. "

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

Rod Lurie

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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. "

" Trump is the opposite of everything Reagan was. "

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

" 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. "

" The point of remaking 'Straw Dogs' is not to replicate the philosophies of Sam Peckinpah at all. What made that film singular was the attitude that he brought to the characters. Oddly enough, that's the one thing that I really wanted to change. "

" Just because the boogeyman of the Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore, it doesn't mean the world is living angelically. "

" The way that one feels about the story line of 'Deterrence' can tell us, I believe, about each person's conservatism or liberalism and precisely how tolerant he or she is of racism. "

" 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. "

Rod Lurie

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" Somebody - and I'm going to guess it was Hitchcock - once said that everyone has their reasons. If you remember that, as a writer, you'll write better than average villains. "

" 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. "

" 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. "