124 Quotes by Rod Lurie

Every weekend from, like, 1974 to 1978, I'd trudge over to the Greenwich library, which gathered up almost every major newspaper in the country. I would sit there all day long and read and read and read the reviews. I remember being twelve or thirteen and writing to Judith Crist, Pauline Kael, and Roger Ebert.

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

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

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.

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

I believe Sam Peckinpah is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, and I hold him in high regard.

He may not have been a good actor, and I personally don't think he was a good president, but I'll tell you this: Ronald Reagan was a helluva character.

I don't think I'm equipped enough to be giving anyone a civics lesson or any kind of message.