Curtis Hanson People Quotations

The fact is that people have started to dismissively apply that term to stories that focus on women and their relationships,

We feel his pain and yet he consistently makes us laugh. You can imagine how exciting it is to have so many people consistently say that this is the best work he's (Douglas) ever done.

With millions of people watching poker weekly on television, it was important to capture the authenticity of the game and its players. To that end, the poker tables in 'Lucky You' are primarily populated by poker players, not actors pretending to be poker players. Our stars trained for months in order to convincingly play side by side with top poker professionals cast in fictional roles.

It got a lot of people talking about it again.

Put simply, there are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it.

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.

In terms of talking with my collaborators as they came onboard - Jeannine Oppewall, our production designer, Dante Spinotti, our cinematographer, and so forth - I said to them, "Let's pretend that this is a place like Honolulu. Let's ignore the fact that all these other movies have been made here for decades and try to come at it with a fresh eye, as if it were an exotic city that people aren't that familiar with. And let's present our own view of it, create a world that's unique to this movie [L.A Confidential].

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.

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.

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.

This girl, I can't tell you how much ... well, just how proud I am of her. She is going to surprise so many people with this.

I prefer stories about people who are, in a sense, trying to find better versions of themselves.

I read this script and it struck a chord with me, and I thought, why does this story affect me so much? And I realized that it reminded me a lot of my relationship with my brother - two people who took very different routes to get to a very similar place.