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I didn't look at it as a transition so much, because I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing about people who make movies.
Curtis Hanson
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Curtis Hanson
Age: 71 †
Born: 1945
Born: March 24
Died: 2016
Died: September 20
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I can't speak to how Michael [Douglas] approached it in terms of his process.
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Put simply, there are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it.
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I wrote a couple of scripts on spec that didn't get made but got some attention, and I then got offers to write professionally.
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That love of movies is very much alive in me.
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Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.
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On a personal note, a legacy he left me, aside from being a friend who was important to me on many levels, was that the decades I knew Sam [Fuller] happened to be the decades that were his least happy professionally.
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I make that distinction only because I came to it strictly as someone who was just a lover of storytellers and cinematic storytellers.
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I thought, If I could bring these characters [Wonder Boys] to life and lead the audience to react the same way I did, this could be a really special picture. Then I read Michael's [Chabon] novel and got even more enthusiastic about it.
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Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues.
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We're not used to seeing movies, especially with physical action, when it isn't the man who comes in to save the day.
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Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.
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I had written the script a few years earlier for Paramount, then later got hired with Sam [Fuller] to write an entirely new script that he was going to direct. And that was one of the great thrills of my professional life.
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Bad Influence, which is an early movie of mine that I'm very fond of. It was an unhappy experience when that picture got released, because it coincided with that ridiculous Rob Lowe videotape scandal.
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The challenge was the opportunity. When I read the first draft of Steve Kloves' fabulous adaptation - I hadn't read [Michael] Chabon's book at that time - what I was immediately captivated by was this group of characters that were at once so engaging and so messed up.
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