88 Quotes by Curtis Hanson

A theme that has always interested me is the difference between how thing appear and how they are. Image versus reality, etc.

A persona like Slim Shady is artificial, you hide behind it. It takes great courage to tear yourself open, to give the sort of performance I wanted. He found it wearing.

I grew up in Los Angeles, and I always wanted to make a movie about Los Angeles.

I prefer stories about people who are, in a sense, trying to find better versions of themselves.

I read this script and it struck a chord with me, and I thought, why does this story affect me so much? And I realized that it reminded me a lot of my relationship with my brother - two people who took very different routes to get to a very similar place.

Chick flick or chick lit diminishes it and is sort of insulting to women and men,

The truth is I've always been a fan of hers,