88 Quotes by Curtis Hanson

Put simply, there are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it.

I had a checkered early career, for sure, with a lot of very unhappy experiences where pictures got taken away, re-cut, re-titled... all the nightmares one hears about.

First of all, Sam Fuller left a group of extraordinary movies that are unique, that are "Fuller-esque," as one might say, which makes them stand apart from any other director's films.

On a personal note, a legacy he left me, aside from being a friend who was important to me on many levels, was that the decades I knew Sam [Fuller] happened to be the decades that were his least happy professionally.

I approach the movies I make as a movie-lover as much as a movie-maker.

That love of movies is very much alive in me.

I'm still a great movie fan, and I guess that's the answer to your question.

I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se.

I was never a critic.