Great Filmmakers Quotes by Curtis Hanson

I very much had wanted to do a picture with more humor than what I had been allowed to do earlier, which is what…

— Curtis Hanson

That's what I love about Michael Douglas' performance in Wonder Boys, because I feel like he surprises audiences that know him from very different…

— Curtis Hanson

I love suspense movies, because in a sense they're the most dreamlike of any genre, and I'm sure I'll make another one.

— Curtis Hanson

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…

— Curtis Hanson

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

— Curtis Hanson

There was a long period of time when Sam Fuller had a lot of projects fall through and had a lot of difficulties getting…

— Curtis Hanson

What I try to do is give each actor an environment in which they can do their best work.

— Curtis Hanson

Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.

— Curtis Hanson

I can't speak to how Michael [Douglas] approached it in terms of his process.

— Curtis Hanson

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

— Curtis Hanson

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

— Curtis Hanson

You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.

— Curtis Hanson

A day doesn't go by when I don't get a compliment on L.A. Confidential, for example.

— Curtis Hanson

I make that distinction only because I came to it strictly as someone who was just a lover of storytellers and cinematic storytellers.

— Curtis Hanson

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…

— Curtis Hanson