Filmmaker Quote by Curtis Hanson Download Open image “I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se.” — Curtis Hanson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Filmmaker Journalist Movie Reviews
I was never a critic. I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se. I make that distinction only because I came to it strictly as someone who was just a lover of storytellers and cinematic storytellers. And I still am. I'm still a great movie fan, and I ,that love of movies is… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share
I sometimes think many reviewers write the reviews of my films even before they see them. — Ram Gopal Varma Copy Share Image
I don't read the reviews because it somewhere affects my work. If some critic doesn't like a movie, I can't keep his criticisms in… — Gautham Menon Copy Share Image
I learned a lot about critics, not to really take them too seriously about movies. — Gina Gershon Copy Share Image
I still think like a critic, and I still analyze films like a critic. However, it's not possible to write criticism if you're making… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me. — Irvin Kershner Copy Share Image
I do not why the critics don't like my work. I guess I do not make films that they like. — Sajid Khan Copy Share Image
I'm one of those directors who read reviews, even if they're bad, because I started as a film critic as a cinema student. I… — Luca Guadagnino Copy Share Image
I stopped reading reviews about my own movies. I read stuff about other people's movies. — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
I don't make films for critics, and I'm not particularly interested in what they have to say, and they don't have a bearing on… — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My very first professional writing credit was on a movie called The Dunwich Horror, and Roger Corman was the executive producer. — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What I try to do is give each actor an environment in which they can do their best work. — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
I can't speak to how Michael [Douglas] approached it in terms of his process. — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
Put simply, there are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it. — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script. — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
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Love is all a matter of timing. It's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late. — Wong Kar-wai Copy Share Image
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