Rod Lurie Quotes

I don't mind other guys seeing movies I want to see and then writing about them. That's fine, especially when it's the 'New Yorker''s Anthony Lane, because he knows this stuff pretty well.

I don't really say much about reviewers. It's a very tough job to get all of the depth of a movie all at once.

I love the ending of 'The Wrestler.'

I was a big 'Blue Valentine' fan. I really loved that movie. And I thought the performances were just unbelievably real, which is certainly what I always strive for in my work.

I really liked the 'Pitch Black' DVD, and I liked the commentary.

I've seen 'Legend'. I like a different kind of cinema, but when done with conviction, anything looks good.

Sometimes I criticize movies. It's not fun to watch a movie with me, because I'll go, "That was a really bad shot." My mom's like, "Shut up, Chloe, watch the film!"

Put simply, 'Interstellar' has a strong undercurrent of cheesiness.

'Lincoln' is impressive enough to almost make you forget how much Daniel Day-Lewis dominates the endeavor.

I loved 'The Social Network.' I think it's one of those movies that will stand the test of time.

The original Spencer Tracy version of 'The Old Man and the Sea' was always terribly flawed because of the over-reliance on voice over, but it's still a beautiful movie.

I liked the fact that 'My Week With Marilyn' wasn't a biopic.

I questioned everything. I didn't see a character developed in Platoon at all. The character in Blue Velvet was much more fascinating to me.

I love 'Shattered Glass.' It's one of my favorite movies. I think it's just brilliant.

I liked 'The Help,' and I love Viola Davis. But I didn't think that film was a great film; I thought that was a very uneven film. I thought the Southern women were so caricatured that it was kind of like 'Harper Valley PTA' or something like that.

Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading.

It's a big part of what we do - we test our movies extensively. I'm always there myself. It's sometimes difficult to sit through, especially if it's a version of the movie that's not working particularly well.

In tragedy, it's hard to find a good resolution; it's not black and white: it's a big fog of gray.

I don't envy the job of people who have to watch five movies a day - that's insane.

As a Western, 'The Magnificent Seven' was a pretty good film. I don't think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as 'Seven Samurai.'

But it is funny, because I saw Unbreakable recently and it's a strange movie, I didn't mind it, and it's got some interesting things going on.

One of my favorite films is 'Big Fish,' which I think is a masterpiece.

The question is: Where would it get you if something that's a little bit ambiguous in the movie is made clear? It doesn't get you anywhere.

'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.

'Under the Skin' is handsome, in a dour way, but inert - a cunning experiment that died in the shooting or on the editing table. You'll want to get the DVD, though, and not just for its study of Scarlett. Odds are that the Making-Of documentary will be far stranger and more fascinating than the movie that was made.