Curtis Hanson Surprise Quotations

When I'm casting a picture, I think who I'd like to see in it if I was sitting in a theater. Who would surprise me?

In L.A. Confidential, it was great to surprise the audience with Guy Pearce and Russell Crowe - two Australian actors that they didn't know at all - and let people discover them through the course of the film.

That's what I love about Michael Douglas' performance in Wonder Boys, because I feel like he surprises audiences that know him from very different roles in his other work.

Having done several of them and also loving other kinds of movies, I'm also tougher on suspense stories in terms of finding one that really excites and surprises me.

This girl, I can't tell you how much ... well, just how proud I am of her. She is going to surprise so many people with this.