Quote

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.

Curtis Hanson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Curtis Hanson
Age: 71 †
Born: 1945
Born: March 24
Died: 2016
Died: September 20
Comedian
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Reno
Nevada
Curtis Lee Hanson
Character
Immediately
Messed
Firsts
Challenge
Draft
Book
Group
Adaptation
First
Characters
Steve
Time
Groups
Engaging
Challenges
Fabulous
Read
Michael
Opportunity
Hadn
Captivated

More quotes by Curtis Hanson

Image
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
Image
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.
Curtis Hanson
Image
I approach the movies I make as a movie-lover as much as a movie-maker.
Curtis Hanson
Image
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.
Curtis Hanson
Image
Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.
Curtis Hanson
Image
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.
Curtis Hanson
Image
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?
Curtis Hanson
Image
I make that distinction only because I came to it strictly as someone who was just a lover of storytellers and cinematic storytellers.
Curtis Hanson
Image
Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.
Curtis Hanson
Image
I can't speak to how Michael [Douglas] approached it in terms of his process.
Curtis Hanson
Image
A day doesn't go by when I don't get a compliment on L.A. Confidential, for example.
Curtis Hanson
Image
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.
Curtis Hanson
Image
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.
Curtis Hanson
Image
Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.
Curtis Hanson
Image
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.
Curtis Hanson
Image
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.
Curtis Hanson
Image
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.
Curtis Hanson
Image
Put simply, there are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it.
Curtis Hanson
Image
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.
Curtis Hanson
Image
That love of movies is very much alive in me.
Curtis Hanson