Curtis Hanson Quotes

I wrote a couple of scripts on spec that didn't get made but got some attention, and I then got offers to write professionally.

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• I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.

  

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• Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.

  

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• It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

  

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• I believe in the impossible because no one else does.

  

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• You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.

  

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• I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.

  

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• I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.

  

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• The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
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• On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.

  

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• All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.

  

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• A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.

  

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• Pain is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!

  

  Ram Dass
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• Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.

  

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• Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.

  

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• I wouldn't do a film like 'The Dirty Picture.' I have a husband and kids, and I won't be able to do justice to such a role. You need a certain mentality and ease to carry such a character.

  

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• At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.

  

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• Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.

  

  Rachel Platten
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• I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.

  

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• I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so.

  

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• America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.

  

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• I don't want people who are in poverty, in pain, or suffering, to suffer because it's for their own good and they can pull themselves up by their bootstraps. I want to help them. I want us all to help them.

  

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• One night, I wrote down all the things I was waiting to do with my little granddaughter, and it became a book, 'I Already Know I Love You.' It was one of those really lovely things in life.

  

  Billy Crystal
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• I wrote a couple of scripts on spec that didn't get made but got some attention, and I then got offers to write professionally.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Writing
  • Attention
  • Couple