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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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Curtis Hanson
Age: 71 †
Born: 1945
Born: March 24
Died: 2016
Died: September 20
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That love of movies is very much alive in me.
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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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I stopped doing that [photojournalism] and wrote some screenplays on speculation, because even though I wanted to direct, to direct you need a lot of money. Even for a cheap movie, you need film stock and equipment and actors.
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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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When I first went to Pittsburgh, I had never been there before, and we hadn't even decided to shoot there yet. I just went to see the location of Michael Chabon's novel. Once there, I became aware that Pittsburgh is a wonder boy, in the narrow sense of the term, just as the human characters are.
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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.
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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 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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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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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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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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Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues.
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