Curtis Hanson Quotes - Page 2

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• I was never a critic.

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  Critics

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• I'm still a great movie fan, and I guess that's the answer to your question.

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  Fans, Answers, Stills

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• I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se.

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  Reviews, Filmmaker, Journalist

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• On the surface, Wonder Boys seemed like such a departure from L.A. Confidential - it's funny, it's contemporary, and so on - and yet at a certain point, I had a feeling that reminded me how I felt when I was shooting L.A. Confidential. I analyzed it for a while, and thought about how emotionally involved I was with the characters. Then I realized that in both movies, there are three main male characters and one female, and all of them are struggling to figure out what they're doing with their lives, independent of each other.

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  Struggle, Character, Independent

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• His [Sam Fuller] self-discipline was amazing. No matter what happened, he'd always go out to his Royal Upright typewriter and just keep working on his stories, his "yarns" as he called them.

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  Typewriters, Self, Yarn

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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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  Fall, Long, Able

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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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  Important, Legacy, Levels

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• My very first professional writing credit was on a movie called The Dunwich Horror, and Roger Corman was the executive producer.

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  Writing, Credit, Roger

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• Roger [Corman] didn't actually hire me, though. I was hired by AIP [American International Pictures], the studio that made the picture, which was Sam Arkoff and Jim Nicholson. It was a great learning experience for me, because not only did I work on the script, but they hired me back to go on location when they were making the movie, to write new scenes and so forth.

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  Writing, Scripts, Goes On

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• I did it [photojournalism] as something that was really rewarding to do, given the opportunity to express myself about something I cared about, and also to learn a lot by watching filmmakers I admired. In a sense, it was my film school. After doing it for a few years, I decided that the time had come to get it together and do some work of my own. So I stopped doing that and wrote some screenplays on speculation, because even though I wanted to direct, to direct you need a lot of money.

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  School, Opportunity, Years

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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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  Needs, Actors, Film

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• I also got to know Roger Corman a bit while we were on location in Mendocino. And then, subsequently, a woman who also worked on The Dunwich Horror named Tamara Asseyev and I teamed up and co-produced a picture that I wrote and directed, called Sweet Kill, that Roger Corman's then-new company distributed.

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  Sweet, Roger, Location

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• Initially, it connected with me when I was a kid, seeing a lot of movies while growing up in Los Angeles. And Sam's [Fuller] pictures are an expression of such a distinct voice that he was one of those filmmakers who made me aware that there was, in fact, a real presence behind the camera that was telling the story, as opposed to actors just presenting it.

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  Growing Up, Real, Kids

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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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  Voice, Way, Unusual

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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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  Writing, Careers, People

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• I had the great fortune to actually become friends with Sam [Fuller] and ultimately collaborate with him on White Dog, which we wrote together.

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  Dog, White, Together

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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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  Men, Action, He Man

  "Movies : Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Streep : Meryl Streep Takes to the White Water. Was Her Action Debut Smooth Sailing? How 'the River Wild' Star and Director Curtis Hanson Took the Plunge". Interview with Laurie Werner, articles.latimes.com. September 25, 1994.

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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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  Unique, Directors, Groups

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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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  Unique, Thinking, Careers

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• It was also a new role for me as a writer, because I wanted to just be there to serve Sam. I recognized that this picture would be "a Sam Fuller movie," and I was just trying, in whatever way I could, to help him get what he wanted.

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  Trying, Would Be, Roles

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• It was just a wonderful experience, one for the memory book for sure. The sad thing about it was that the picture came under this absurd cloud of controversy. Here was a movie based on the central theme that racism is something that is taught, and it's illustrated by this story of a dog and the efforts of humans to re-train it after it had been trained to go after black people. And it created this ridiculous controversy and wound up being the last Hollywood movie that Sam [Fuller] made.

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  Dog, Memories, Book

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• Of course, Sam [Fuller] was like, "No problem," because he treated it like a newspaper deadline. We worked long hours, often very late into the night, in his garage, which had been converted into an office. It was freezing cold outside and there was no heat in the garage, so he had a little space heater over by his side and I had a blanket that he graciously gave me to drape around my shoulders like a Navajo Indian. And he gave me cigars, too, of course.

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  Night, Space, Long

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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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  Character, Boys, Important

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• 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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  Book, Character, Opportunity

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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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  Character, Boys, Special

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