Movie Quotes by 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

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

— 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

Roger [Corman] didn't actually hire me, though. I was hired by AIP [American International Pictures], the studio that made the picture, which…

— Curtis Hanson

So it's discouraging and, yet, when you make a movie like Wonder Boys, in a sense it's its own reward, because it…

— Curtis Hanson

Having done several of them and also loving other kinds of movies, I'm also tougher on suspense stories in terms of finding…

— Curtis Hanson

What you care about [movie] is whether it's moving you, or whether you're caught up in it.

— Curtis Hanson

I didn't look at it as a transition so much, because I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing…

— Curtis Hanson

Even though L.A Confidential box-office was a fraction of, say, Titanic or the Grinch movie, it finds its audience and will continue…

— Curtis Hanson

That love of movies is very much alive in me.

— Curtis Hanson

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…

— Curtis Hanson

Bad Influence, which is an early movie of mine that I'm very fond of. It was an unhappy experience when that picture…

— Curtis Hanson

I approach the movies I make as a movie-lover as much as a movie-maker.

— Curtis Hanson

I was never a critic. I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se. I make…

— Curtis Hanson

I stopped doing that [photojournalism] and wrote some screenplays on speculation, because even though I wanted to direct, to direct you need…

— Curtis Hanson

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

— Curtis Hanson

The bigger problem still is that it determines in many ways what movies get made in the first place. Because as sources…

— Curtis Hanson

I did it [photojournalism] as something that was really rewarding to do, given the opportunity to express myself about something I cared…

— Curtis Hanson

Rob Lowe, who I thought was really good in the movie [ Bad Influence], had his performance overshadowed by this sort of…

— Curtis Hanson

I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing about people who make movies. I did it as something that…

— Curtis Hanson

There are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it. I had a checkered…

— Curtis Hanson

It was just a wonderful experience, one for the memory book for sure. The sad thing about it was that the picture…

— Curtis Hanson

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

— Curtis Hanson

In terms of talking with my collaborators as they came onboard - Jeannine Oppewall, our production designer, Dante Spinotti, our cinematographer, and…

— Curtis Hanson

We're not used to seeing movies, especially with physical action, when it isn't the man who comes in to save the day.

— Curtis Hanson