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

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 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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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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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 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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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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Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.
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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 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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First of all, Sam Fuller left a group of extraordinary movies that are unique, that are Fuller-esque, as one might say, which makes them stand apart from any other director's films.
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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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Put simply, there are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it.
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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 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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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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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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Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues.
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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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A day doesn't go by when I don't get a compliment on L.A. Confidential, for example.
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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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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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