Curtis Hanson Quotes

People ask me, "Why do you love making films?" and I always say, "Because I love film." I hope that I can call myself a movie buff.

I love the kind of movies I watched when I was a kid. But, I also love telling great stories.

I love being a part of storytelling, so whether I'm getting to do that on Survivor, or do it through kids' adventure books, or directing a movie, it's all sort of the same: Once Upon a Time...

I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.

There are very few films that work like a novel.

From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me.

I like films to be complete in their written form.

During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.

Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing.

I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there's a place for films that pry more into the human condition.

Americans think cinema is about storytelling; I don't believe that. I think it's a language and everyone has to find their own way of speaking. It's not so much what you say as the way you say it.

As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film.

I have always thought if you are going to make a film, it's much better to have an original script that will play to film's strengths.

I can use movie as a language. Not only could it send a good message, I could let people know about my thinking and how I see the world, how I see the colour, how I see the music, how I see everything.

Every filmmaker imbues a movie with their own point of view.

Growing up, I just loved movies. It was how I saw the world, which I wanted to learn more about.

From the time I could visually perceive film or TV, I was just enthralled by it. I thought it was the most wonderful thing in the world.

I was swept by the narrative structure of film... you can create a world, you can destroy it, you can do what you want with it and serve it to people just the way you like.

I'm a lover of cinema, and I don't want that to completely expire.

I think that cinema is medium of communication. It's as valid as novels or fine art.

I want to do films in different languages because I want to tell stories in different genres.

I don't see myself as an actor. I see myself as a storyteller.

I watch films, so I know what it is to be there in a theatre as the audience. So I always want to communicate with them when I make films, but that is not the only thing. I also want to say something which I feel deeply, and which I feel I can connect with the rest of the audience.

Bergman's my favorite filmmaker, if I had to choose.

The whole point of making a film is to tell a story.