Curtis Hanson Quotes
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My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.
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If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.
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A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.
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It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid.
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I like to have fun, just stay relaxed.
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Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.
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I like it when my wife is in her jeans, with very little makeup. But, I also appreciate the range - the different ways she can look. The moment she walks out all dressed up and... whoa! That's always good.
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I feel that everything I do in my life I can do in a shorter time than most men can. It's the quality, not the quantity.
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When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.
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Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.
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I felt the Lord telling me just to be patient all year. Whether it happened this year, next, or never, everything was going to be okay.
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I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
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Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.
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Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.
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Soviet expansionism in Europe, the battle for control of China, and the 1950 invasion of South Korea would shatter once-euphoric dreams of post-war cooperation with the Kremlin.
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We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.
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We need to increase education budgets.
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What are you adding to the world today?
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When you work this intensely on something, the recording process becomes a bit like cabin fever. I shut everything out and, for a while, I totally lost perspective. To an outsider, I imagine the whole recording process sounds like torture.
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You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I'm going, or when I've lived in a place so long that there's no chance I could possibly get lost.
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I can't speak to how Michael [Douglas] approached it in terms of his process.
