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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. "

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" The ability of the press to print their stories without the government trying to get them to betray their sources is as essential to a free press as the ink it is printed with. Otherwise, who will hold accountable those who hold power over us? "

Rod Lurie

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Power

Trying

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

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

" 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. "

" Trump is the opposite of everything Reagan was. "

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

Rod Lurie

Really

Iconoclastic

" Marc Frydman and I are overwhelmed by the confidence Touchstone Television has shown in us, and we're thrilled to continue trying to knock 'em out of the park. "

Rod Lurie

Trying

Park

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

History

Things

" 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.' "

" My mom is an exceptionally wise and kind person. "

" 'All the President's Men' is a movie that has a very personal place for me because it made me want to be a journalist, and then it made me want to be a filmmaker. "

" 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. "

" 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

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

" The truth is that when a man has a child, and it's a girl, and he doesn't change as a man, he's not much of a man. "

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

" 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? "

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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 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 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.' "

" 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. "

" What actor doesn't want to walk around a set and be called 'Mr. President?' Playing POTUS is a kind of rite of passage among American actors - our version of playing Hamlet. "

" '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. "