Curtis Hanson Quotes
The bigger problem still is that it determines in many ways what movies get made in the first place. Because as sources of finance are considering a project, they ask themselves, "Does this lend itself to a simplistic marketing approach which will guarantee a big opening weekend?" As a movie-goer, I think that's tragic, because when you look back at those movies that made us fall in love with movies in the first place, most of them were not high-concept, and most of them would not have "won their weekend."
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'
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Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.
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Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
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The biggest part of my fashion choices is how comfortable it is.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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I do not watch horror films. At all. I am not a horror film girl; I don't have the stomach for it. I've seen a few in my lifetime, like 'The Shining' or 'Carrie,' but I can't sleep for, like, a week after I see something like that.
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Question: Why is that MC's be wack And major labels wanna sign that crap? A-yo...funk that!
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I don't care what people are saying about me, good or bad, in blogs or on Twitter or in the media. There will always be people who don't like you and don't like your books. Ignore them.
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What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English -- SWELL and LOUSY.
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Fame and money and all that - you hear people say it a lot, but they don't mean a thing to me.
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Pole vaulting is an event of high and lows.
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The bigger problem still is that it determines in many ways what movies get made in the first place. Because as sources of finance are considering a project, they ask themselves, "Does this lend itself to a simplistic marketing approach which will guarantee a big opening weekend?" As a movie-goer, I think that's tragic, because when you look back at those movies that made us fall in love with movies in the first place, most of them were not high-concept, and most of them would not have "won their weekend."
