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" 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. "

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

" It's not such a bad thing to bring some naive optimism to Washington. "

" 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. "

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

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" Trump is the opposite of everything Reagan was. "

" There seems to be an interest in connecting the history of the past to the present and asking whether things have really changed. Films like 'The Contender' and 'Bulworth' seem quaint compared with Trump! "

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. "

" It's very exciting to continue to work at DreamWorks. "

" 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. "

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" When reporters are in the business of obtaining hard facts that service the free flow of information, journalists should have a right to obtain that information without fear of personal ruin or incarceration. "

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" Sam Peckinpah's movies probably say more about him than anybody's body of work says about that person. There are running themes in his films that I find eminently fascinating, disturbing, exhausting, and exhilarating. "

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

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

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

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

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