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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.
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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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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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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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 approach the movies I make as a movie-lover as much as a movie-maker.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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What you care about [movie] is whether it's moving you, or whether you're caught up in it.
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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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I can't speak to how Michael [Douglas] approached it in terms of his process.
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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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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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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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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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A day doesn't go by when I don't get a compliment on L.A. Confidential, for example.
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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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