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I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.
Curtis Hanson
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Curtis Hanson
Age: 71 †
Born: 1945
Born: March 24
Died: 2016
Died: September 20
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Curtis Lee Hanson
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Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues.
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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.
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A day doesn't go by when I don't get a compliment on L.A. Confidential, for example.
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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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In L.A. Confidential, it was great to surprise the audience with Guy Pearce and Russell Crowe - two Australian actors that they didn't know at all - and let people discover them through the course of the film.
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It was a unique experience in several ways, because I don't think Sam [Fuller] had ever collaborated with another writer over his whole career.
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Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.
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Now, grosses are listed in the newspapers and on television like it's a sporting event. It's ridiculous, because when you're watching a movie, unless you're an investor in the movie or a stockholder in the studio, what do you care how much it's grossing or how much it cost or any of that stuff?
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So it's discouraging and, yet, when you make a movie like Wonder Boys, in a sense it's its own reward, because it does move people, it gets great reviews, and it becomes part of that library of movies that exist out there. As time goes by, it will find its audience.
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I can't speak to how Michael [Douglas] approached it in terms of his process.
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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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What you care about [movie] is whether it's moving you, or whether you're caught up in it.
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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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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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Consequently, it's so gratifying to then make a picture that's successful and gives you leverage to have better circumstances than you've ever had, before the next time out.
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I approach the movies I make as a movie-lover as much as a movie-maker.
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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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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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As ridiculous as it is for anybody who knows how movies are made, there were people who actually wrote in reviews that this picture [Bad Influence] had been put out to capitalize on the scandal. Which, of course, would have been impossible.
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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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