Curtis Hanson Quotes
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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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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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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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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I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
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My awkward stage extended well into high school.
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I'm definitely inspired by old hip-hop.
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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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I have always felt that public, commercial and community organisations should be as open as possible about their affairs. They need to be accountable to their owners, their customers, their members and communities and other interest groups.
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I like to do my own stunts, but sometimes you need a little bit of help.
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It's been reinforced to me, and it's a little cliche, but I've learned that you can't make a movie that even works, much less that's good, without really good writing and really good acting. That lesson has led me to not be distracted, so much, by the other stuff going on in filmmaking and to focus on the essence of a story, and the words and the events and the way that those are interpreted by the actors. That philosophy has taken me to a place that I really like.
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Some of my favorite books to read are young adult books.
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I approach the movies I make as a movie-lover as much as a movie-maker.
