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Having done several of them and also loving other kinds of movies, I'm also tougher on suspense stories in terms of finding one that really excites and surprises me.
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Curtis Hanson
Age: 71 †
Born: 1945
Born: March 24
Died: 2016
Died: September 20
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More quotes by Curtis Hanson
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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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 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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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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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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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 approach the movies I make as a movie-lover as much as a movie-maker.
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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 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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Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.
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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 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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A day doesn't go by when I don't get a compliment on L.A. Confidential, for example.
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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.
Curtis Hanson
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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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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Put simply, there are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it.
Curtis Hanson
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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Samuel Fuller pictures were both written and shot in such an unusual way that his voice came through loud and clear, and it made a big impression on me.
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I can't speak to how Michael [Douglas] approached it in terms of his process.
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