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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children are made of eyes and ears, and nothing, however minute, escapes their microscopic observation.
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English urban artists were very used to making secondhand American music, and I thought that was boring.
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I like thinking big. I always have. To me it’s very simple: if you’re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.
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My brother and my dad always used to shave their hair, and I remember thinking, 'Why can't I do the same?'
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I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.
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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.
