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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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Curtis Hanson
Age: 71 †
Born: 1945
Born: March 24
Died: 2016
Died: September 20
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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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A day doesn't go by when I don't get a compliment on L.A. Confidential, for example.
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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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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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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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Put simply, there are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it.
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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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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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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 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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Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.
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That love of movies is very much alive in me.
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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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Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.
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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 approach the movies I make as a movie-lover as much as a movie-maker.
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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 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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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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I can't speak to how Michael [Douglas] approached it in terms of his process.
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