"I was never a critic. I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se. I make that distinction only because I came to it strictly as someone who was just a lover of storytellers and cinematic storytellers. And I still am. I'm still a great movie fan, and I ,that love of movies is very much alive in me. I approach the movies I make as a movie-lover as much as a movie-maker."

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Source : Source: www.avclub.com

Curtis Hanson

#Lovers Quotes #Filmmaker Quotes #Critics Quotes

“I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can.”
“Every time a fellow golfer gives me a piece of advice I have thought about it. A different thing is that this advice can be introduced into my golfing routine.”
“Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.”
“Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.”
“The good television of today is probably better than the best television of the old days. The bad television of today is worse. It is not only bad, it is damaging, meretricious, seedy and cynical.”

Source : "Savaging of 'seedy and cynical' TV" by Matt Wells, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2004.
“You don't change what you love or you never loved it to begin with.”
“People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.”
“If I were still stupider than I am, I should think myself at the apex of my career; yet I know how much I still lack, to reach perfection; I see it the more clearly now that I live only among first-rank artists and know what each one of them lacks.”

Source : Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.169, Courier Corporation

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