Curtis Hanson

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

— 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…

— 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...…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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

As ridiculous as it is for anybody who knows how movies are made, there were people who actually wrote in reviews that…

— 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

On a personal note, a legacy he left me, aside from being a friend who was important to me on many levels,…

— Curtis Hanson

That love of movies is very much alive in me.

— Curtis Hanson

Consequently, it's so gratifying to then make a picture that's successful and gives you leverage to have better circumstances than you've ever…

— 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