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" There was scarcely a month during 1988 when Thomas Harris' novel, 'The Silence Of The Lambs,' was not on or around the top of the 'New York Times' list of America's bestselling books. "

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" 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

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" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The common denominator of the great women leaders in the world - Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir - is that they're dramatically nonsexual. "

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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

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

" 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. "

" I think that maybe human beings are conditioned to violence. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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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" Trump is the opposite of everything Reagan was. "

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

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

" '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. "

" 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? "

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

" Unfortunately, in this country, when we have the opportunity to be bigots in private, we take it every time. "

" Most people with whom I talk, often quite educated, think the military is made up of knife-between-the-teeth grunts, uneducated robots without any kind of free will whatsoever - people who goose step to Republican philosophy and particularly the Bush cowboy mentality. "