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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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Curtis Hanson
Age: 71 †
Born: 1945
Born: March 24
Died: 2016
Died: September 20
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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 can't speak to how Michael [Douglas] approached it in terms of his process.
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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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Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.
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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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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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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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What you care about [movie] is whether it's moving you, or whether you're caught up in it.
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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 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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So the city [Pittsburgh] was faced with that question of What to do now? because it can't turn back the clock and be what it once was. So thematically, it seemed like the perfect location for the movie. And then, it's a matter of how we get that feeling into the picture and make it a part of [Michael] Chabon's story.
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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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Here [in Wonder Boys] I had this group of characters where you didn't know which were the important ones or what direction they were heading.
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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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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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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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A day doesn't go by when I don't get a compliment on L.A. Confidential, for example.
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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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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 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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