Curtis Hanson Quotes

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

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• I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Writer
  • Worked
  • Journalist

• I don't read any reviews, so I'm oblivious to what they have to say. I'm completely unaware. It's fantastic.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Say
  • Reviews
  • Unaware

• For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Sometimes
  • I Can
  • Journalist

• The fact is that you're never gonna believe any of the reviews, because the movie is to you what it is to you. No one's ever gonna sway you from what you feel about it.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Believe
  • Movie
  • You

• I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • American
  • Might
  • Filmmaker

• I often don't read reviews.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Read
  • Often
  • Reviews

• All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize that film is a different medium and the filmmaker must have the right to bring some new elements to the table, provided the soul of the book is preserved.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Book
  • Soul
  • Film

• The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Story
  • Got
  • Filmmaker

• I didn't really want to be a filmmaker, growing up. Other than Spike Lee's movies, I would think, 'Where is a place for me?' We were so damn poor that it just seemed too far beyond.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Want
  • Movies
  • Filmmaker

• We may deny the existence of ethnonationalism, detest it, condemn it. But this creator and destroyer of empires and nations is a force infinitely more powerful than globalism, for it engages the heart. Men will die for it. Religion, race, culture and tribe are the four horsemen of the coming apocalypse.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Men
  • Heart
  • May

• This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before...The fortune of my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of spirit.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Miracle

• Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

  

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Good
  • Black
  • Sleep

• Reading is a joy for my kids, and to swing in a hammock on a lazy summer day reading a good book just goes with summer.

  

  Marcia Gay Harden
  • Good
  • Book
  • Kids

• I'm a filmmaker. I like to ask the questions, make others feel vulnerable. I don't want to be vulnerable.

  

  Jimmy Chin
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Questions

• The harp at Nature's advent strungHas never ceased to play;The song the stars of morning sungHas never died away.

  

  John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Nature
  • Song
  • Morning

• I couldn't imagine what it's like to be a journalist talking about music. You're left with empty descriptions; you probably have to make up a sort of weird cocktail of band influences and references to other music to get your point across.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Up
  • Music
  • Band

• You can imagine what it was like for me to actually be sitting in a room with matching typewriters, working under the tutelage of this guy I so admired, both as a filmmaker and as a man.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Men
  • Guy
  • Imagine

• It doesn't mean that you endorse it. It doesn't mean you're being insensitive. It means you're a journalist and you're telling the story.

  

  Chris Wallace
  • Story
  • Journalist
  • Endorse

• I'm not a journalist any more. I don't have to stick a microphone up somebody's nostril and I don't have a camera lens behind my shoulder, I think people talk to me in a much franker way.

  

  Gerald Seymour
  • Thinking
  • Behinds
  • Cameras

• I am surely a feminist filmmaker, but not because I set out to become one, or am trying to make any kind of statement. Rather, it's inherent in the act of expressing myself, as a woman who is deeply alienated from mainstream cinematic structures of seeing. I express myself and am instantly feminist.

  

  Nina Menkes
  • Feminist
  • Filmmaker
  • Expressing

• I am a true adorer of life, and if I can't reach as high as the face of it, I plant my kiss somewhere lower down. Those who understand will require no further explanation.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Life
  • High
  • Kiss

• The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Country
  • Shows
  • Used

• Barack Obama pledged to end torture, but he has continued the CIA renditions where you kidnap people and send them to another country to be interrogated.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Torture
  • Barack Obama
  • Kidnap People

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

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Filmmaker
  • Journalist
  • Reviews