Curtis Hanson Writing Quotations

Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.

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.

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.

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.

My very first professional writing credit was on a movie called The Dunwich Horror, and Roger Corman was the executive producer.

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.