Curtis Hanson Quotes
We're not used to seeing movies, especially with physical action, when it isn't the man who comes in to save the day.
Quotes to Explore
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The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
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Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.
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As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
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Men have not stacked the decks against women.
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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
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All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
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All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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I began with small roles in successful movies like 'No Country For Old Men' by the Coen brothers; but it was 'The Last Exorcism' that changed my life: with what I earned, I left Texas and moved to Los Angeles.
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When I was really small, my mother had difficulty keeping me dressed, as I liked to be naked! I definitely had very strong ideas on what I wanted to wear. My favourite look was always Action Man and Spiderman. Now though, I really like beautiful clothes.
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It's successful, middle-class Arab men and women, professionals with seemingly happy family lives, who are prepared to go to paradise for a greater cause. That's terrifying.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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I think the biggest difference is in live action, you show up, and there's a set there and a ground to stand on, at least, and in animation, there's kinda nothing. You are making decisions on everything.
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Necessity has been a priceless spur which has helped men to perform miracles against incredible odds.
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Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.
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You can't really do a big character in an action film; you're already suspending your disbelief in the action, then to suspend your disbelief in the character is too much.
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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.
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Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back...
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I'm not one to be like, 'What is everybody doing? Let me do that!' I just do what I want.
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Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.
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The man who has no imagination has no wings.
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We're not used to seeing movies, especially with physical action, when it isn't the man who comes in to save the day.
