Curtis Hanson Quotes
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.
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People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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My awkward stage extended well into high school.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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I definitely don't sit down every day and make a new song.
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I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
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If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
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A man in the house is worth two in the street.
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What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.
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The England team must always be respected. They always fight to the end.
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I feel like when you do things with such a small budget, it actually makes you be more creative... and allows you to concentrate more on the story and the characters. I think that there is something about dirty, gritty and raw filmmaking that makes it feel a little more natural and makes it easier to connect with the action.
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From 20 years of experience hiring artists out of the schools, I know-they get worse every year. They're absolutely ridiculously retarded now.
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Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 - sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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Steve Jobs had something like a 90% approval rating from his employees. You hear stories about him being this short-tempered, aggressive person, which he was. But he was in the pursuit of making people around him better, so the product they created would be better.
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I approach the movies I make as a movie-lover as much as a movie-maker.
