Curtis Hanson Quotes
When I'm casting a picture, I think who I'd like to see in it if I was sitting in a theater. Who would surprise me?
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.
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When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'
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I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
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I fight because I like challenges.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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As human beings, we all have reasons for our behavior. There may be people who have certain physiological issues that dictate why they make certain choices. On the whole, though, I think we're dictated by our structure, our past, our environment, our culture. So once you understand the patterns that shape a person, how can you not find sympathy?
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I grew up with the idea of the cyborg and the robot, but at the same time I felt this intense disconnection between the things I was engaged with and inspired by in terms of fun and play. It seemed like paintings and drawings were so static.
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Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.
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My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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As a producer, the most important call you can get is on Saturday morning, when the Friday-night grosses come in. As a director, you want your film to be successful. But your outlook is a bit different. You become very conscious of the reviews.
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I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It's a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don't like - and the fact that it's not reversible.
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One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.
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First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.
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Edward holds up a hand for silence. 'If you please, Captain: he’s thinking. Let us savor the exquisite rarity of the moment.'
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I love going to the beach in the tropics and doing whatever I do - surfing, swimming or being - and the glow when I get a tan that deepens. I walk around with red and gold in my skin and feel like the most beautiful thing on the planet!
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It is self-evident that the tabula rasa of modernization favors the optimum use of earth-moving equipment in as much as a totally flat datum is regarded as the most economic matrix upon which to predicate the rationalization of construction.
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The work that God does in us when we wait is usually more important than the thing for which we wait!
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When I'm casting a picture, I think who I'd like to see in it if I was sitting in a theater. Who would surprise me?
