Rod Lurie
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"Rod Lurie" is an Israeli Jews/Israeli-United States/American director, screenwriter and former film critic.

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It's not like when I hired them they had to fill out a questionnaire and say, 'I'm a Democrat,'.

What The West Wing does is show you how bills are made and how the White House works with the Congress. They're a very political show, which is great. I can watch it forever. We're going to devote a lot of time to East Wing residence stuff.

We're going to deal a lot with how you get the kids to school, how do you take the little kids trick or treating.

I couldn't think of another way to get her into power where basically her own Cabinet is against her, the whole world is crashing down on her. And I also feel that as an Independent, it would be naive and fairytale-ish to assume right now that an Independent would come to power at the head of a ticket.

We come from a community [of actors and filmmakers] that happens to be mostly Democratic. With all due respect, your question is loaded; you had to know the answer before you asked.

His problem was unusual, ... He didn't want to play a Republican for six years. He didn't think he had the internal fortitude to play somebody who goes against everything he personally stands for.

Is rather arcane and it deals with very specific political issues.