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I approach the movies I make as a movie-lover as much as a movie-maker.

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Curtis Hanson
Age: 71 †
Born: 1945
Born: March 24
Died: 2016
Died: September 20
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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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Put simply, there are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it.
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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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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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There was a long period of time when Sam Fuller had a lot of projects fall through and had a lot of difficulties getting a project off the ground. And I was able to observe him during that period, and see his incredible resiliency and courage as he faced this difficulty and just kept working.
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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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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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A day doesn't go by when I don't get a compliment on L.A. Confidential, for example.
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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 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 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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What you care about [movie] is whether it's moving you, or whether you're caught up in it.
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Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.
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I don't think of the marketplace as teen-oriented or teen-dominated. I think of it as dominated by high-concept, in marketing especially.
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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 can't speak to how Michael [Douglas] approached it in terms of his process.
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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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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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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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