Curtis Hanson Quotes
I don't think of the marketplace as teen-oriented or teen-dominated. I think of it as dominated by high-concept, in marketing especially.
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The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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I've been in more laps than a napkin.
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I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spears' latest breakdown - topics that were 'breaking news' at the time.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.
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I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
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I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.
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Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.
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If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.
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So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.
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A woman seldom comes out of a sullen spell until she's sure her husband has suffered as much as she thinks he should.
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There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.
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So," she went on, "it got me thinking about what cost beauty. Or for that matter, what cost anything? Would you trade love for beauty? Or happiness for beauty? Could a gorgeous person with a mean streak be a worthy trade? And if you did make the trade, decide you'd take that beautiful swan and hope it wouldn't turn on you, what would you do if it did?
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I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!
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I don't think of the marketplace as teen-oriented or teen-dominated. I think of it as dominated by high-concept, in marketing especially.
