Boys Quote 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

Here [in Wonder Boys] I had this group of characters where you didn't know which were the important ones or what direction they were…

— Curtis Hanson

I thought, "If I could bring these characters [Wonder Boys] to life and lead the audience to react the same way I did, this…

— 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 does move…

— Curtis Hanson

I read the script for Wonder Boys, and I said that was almost perfect, it was so classy, cool and funny. It's a really…

— Robert Downey, Jr

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

— Curtis Hanson

In L.A. Confidential, it was great to surprise the audience with Guy Pearce and Russell Crowe - two Australian actors that they didn't know…

— 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 doing so…

— Curtis Hanson

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

— Curtis Hanson

The best books come from someplace deep inside… Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.

— Judy Blume

Getting the player emotionally involved is the holy grail. We try to make players forget they're playing a game. We want them to live…

— David Cage

I'm still tremendously proud of 'Crimson Petal.' I'm still very emotionally involved with these characters. I still care about them.

— Michel Faber

I wouldn't mind getting emotionally involved with a woman.

— Frank Bruno

I might be better able to help parents of dying children, but for quite a while I felt less able, too emotionally involved. And…

— C. Everett Koop