24 ordspråk av Curtis Hanson
Curtis Hanson
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.
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A theme that has always interested me is the difference between how thing appear and how they are. Image versus reality, etc.
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Chick flick or chick lit diminishes it and is sort of insulting to women and men,
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defined by the outward differences in the appearances, we tried to extend this duality to the two geographic worlds in which the story takes place.
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I grew up in Los Angeles, and I always wanted to make a movie about Los Angeles.
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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.
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I think Shirley took it as a challenge and therefore was excited by it, because I think that's what makes her life exciting,
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In Her Shoes
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It got a lot of people talking about it again.
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One of the reasons I wanted Toni to play the part was...she would put on the burden of weight, ... The weight of responsibility that someone feels who literally gave up her own childhood to take care of her sister.
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Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues.
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Shirley's his female counterpart. They're wild horses knocking against a fence post, trying to push and see how far their work can take them. I think being challenged as an actress keeps Shirley young.
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The fact is that people have started to dismissively apply that term to stories that focus on women and their relationships,
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The question in my mind was,
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The shoes are a great symbol of the conflict between the sisters. Haven't we all at one time or another wanted to be in someone else's shoes? To have their advantages, their good fortune.
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