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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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Curtis Lee Hanson
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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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When I first went to Pittsburgh, I had never been there before, and we hadn't even decided to shoot there yet. I just went to see the location of Michael Chabon's novel. Once there, I became aware that Pittsburgh is a wonder boy, in the narrow sense of the term, just as the human characters are.
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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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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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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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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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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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A day doesn't go by when I don't get a compliment on L.A. Confidential, for example.
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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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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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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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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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Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.
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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 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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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 approach the movies I make as a movie-lover as much as a movie-maker.
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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 can't speak to how Michael [Douglas] approached it in terms of his process.
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