Curtis Hanson Quotes
I stopped doing that [photojournalism] and wrote some screenplays on speculation, because even though I wanted to direct, to direct you need a lot of money. Even for a cheap movie, you need film stock and equipment and actors.
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I love the idea of getting up early on Sundays and walking to the market to pick up fresh fruits and vegetables. It's a good way to start my day, and it makes me feel like I've accomplished something before other people are even awake.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.
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I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
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The cast of 'Lemonade Mouth' was picked so perfectly. A lot of people see us as a band on camera, but not a lot of people know that Lemonade Mouth was a band off-camera, too.
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If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
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I love boats. I can be on a boat for days.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.
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You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.
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I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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I've been cutting my hair ever since college. I try to do that whenever it gets rough. I'm not too cheap to go the barber shop, but I mostly try to do that by myself. I try to keep my skills sharp.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.
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A lot of producers now are people who stay in their office and never go to the set. I don't know how you can be the advocate of the movie if you're not there in it every day.
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I can watch a movie and go, 'Oh, my god, that person is acting.' If you just listen to what the other person is saying, your response will always be genuine.
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I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important.
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I stopped doing that [photojournalism] and wrote some screenplays on speculation, because even though I wanted to direct, to direct you need a lot of money. Even for a cheap movie, you need film stock and equipment and actors.
