A Look Back at Curtis Hanson’s Impressive and Eclectic Filmmaking Career

Hanson had a deep and abiding love for cinema. With his career as a photojournalist, he was constantly talking to and learning from the great filmmakers. With those lessons learned, Hanson wound up becoming a great filmmaker himself. “I love storytellers,” Hanson told Charlie Rose in 1997 while promoting L.A. Confidential. “As a kid I read as much as I saw movies, you know, I love the great novelists and I love the great movie makers. The ones that I like the most, novelist or filmmaker, were the ones that were the entertainers who entertained you and at the same time gave you something, something else.”