Israeli - Director | May 15, 1962 -
I believe Sam Peckinpah is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, and I hold him in high regard.
Rod Lurie
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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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The truth is that I have never created a president to push a political point of view. I am often looking to create aspirational characters; that's true. But, you know, in the end, it is really up to the actor in front of the presidential seal to decide exactly what kind of president you're going to get.
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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.
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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.
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You will never - and I mean never - be able to figure out if I was an Obama guy or a Hillary guy.
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Trump is the opposite of everything Reagan was.
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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.
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'Nothing But the Truth' is a journalistic thriller that is set during the end of days for print media.
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The fight to get a shield law barring the government from being able to jail journalists is itself a non-partisan battle.
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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.'
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The United States military is probably the most socialistic institution in the United States.
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