Curtis Hanson
Curtis Hanson
Curtis Lee Hansonis an American film director, film producer and screenwriter. His directing work includes the psychological thriller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, the neo-noir crime film L.A. Confidential, the comedy Wonder Boys, the hip hop drama 8 Mile, and the romantic comedy-drama In Her Shoes...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth24 March 1945
CityReno, NV
CountryUnited States of America
Curtis Hanson quotes about
unique film extraordinary
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.
eye unique people
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].
unique thinking
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.
challenge excited life shirley therefore took
I think Shirley took it as a challenge and therefore was excited by it, because I think that's what makes her life exciting,
emotion emotions feminine
Why does something that has emotion in it have to be the feminine product?
opportunity people
Put simply, there are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it.
taken unhappy nightmare
I had a checkered early career, for sure, with a lot of very unhappy experiences where pictures got taken away, re-cut, re-titled... all the nightmares one hears about.
important legacy he-left-me
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.
filmmaker journalist
I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se.
critics
I was never a critic.
fall long incredibles
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.
lovers storyteller
I make that distinction only because I came to it strictly as someone who was just a lover of storytellers and cinematic storytellers.
speak term
I can't speak to how Michael [Douglas] approached it in terms of his process.
thinking surprise surprise-me
When I'm casting a picture, I think who I'd like to see in it if I was sitting in a theater. Who would surprise me?