Curtis Hanson Quotes
It was also a new role for me as a writer, because I wanted to just be there to serve Sam. I recognized that this picture would be "a Sam Fuller movie," and I was just trying, in whatever way I could, to help him get what he wanted.
Quotes to Explore
-
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
-
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
-
As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
-
The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
-
My 93-year-old grandma is a beautiful example of healthy living. She laughs a lot and always says, 'Just be yourself!' She also eats dessert every single day.
-
I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight.
-
I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.
-
Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
-
Working with Adrien Brody was like going to Julliard, but instead of four years, I went for four weeks. He was like the Albert Einstein of professors, it was just the best experience of my life. Adrien was the most influential mentor in my acting career thus far, and even after the movie he continues to mentor me.
-
I was a dancer of no repute. But dance taught me a lot. You walk into a dance studio knowing you have to walk out with a dance. You improvise.
-
I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
-
The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.
-
People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
-
I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
-
I'm rap's vigilante. I'm out for justice.
-
In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
-
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
-
People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.
-
I consider myself the luckiest man in the world. I have spent a lifetime doing what I love.
-
Some players don't like training and I've seen some players who aren't bothered if they play or not. But I want to play every game. Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
-
The bottom line is that the euro is a failed experiment.
-
I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.
-
It was also a new role for me as a writer, because I wanted to just be there to serve Sam. I recognized that this picture would be "a Sam Fuller movie," and I was just trying, in whatever way I could, to help him get what he wanted.
