Curtis Hanson Quotes About Writing
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My very first professional writing credit was on a movie called The Dunwich Horror, and Roger Corman was the executive producer.
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I had written the script a few years earlier for Paramount, then later got hired with Sam [Fuller] to write an entirely new script that he was going to direct. And that was one of the great thrills of my professional life.
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I didn't look at it as a transition so much, because I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing about people who make movies.
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Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.
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I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing about people who make movies. I did it as something that was really rewarding to do, given the opportunity to express myself about something I cared about, and also to learn a lot by watching filmmakers I admired. In a sense, it was my film school. After doing it for a few years, I decided that the time had come to get it together and do some work of my own. Even for a cheap movie, you need film stock and equipment and actors. Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.
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Roger [Corman] didn't actually hire me, though. I was hired by AIP [American International Pictures], the studio that made the picture, which was Sam Arkoff and Jim Nicholson. It was a great learning experience for me, because not only did I work on the script, but they hired me back to go on location when they were making the movie, to write new scenes and so forth.
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I wrote a couple of scripts on spec that didn't get made but got some attention, and I then got offers to write professionally.
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