Curtis Hanson Quotes

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

Learned to read, and for a while as a kid, you think books are just leaves on trees. Then suddenly, you think a human being is making that, and maybe you could do that.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

What better way to expand your imagination than to read!

When I got large enough to go to work, while employed I was reflecting on many things that would present themselves to my imagination; and whenever an opportunity occurred of looking at a book, when the school-children were getting their lessons, I would find many things that the fertility of my own imagination had depicted to me before.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.

I try to read writers who are better than me because it inspires me to be better.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

I'll continue making films because I love being able to drop into other people's worlds. My goal is to be constantly learning.

When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

When I was thirteen, I was in a supermarket with my mother, and for no reason at all, I picked up a science-fiction book at the checkout stand and started reading it. I couldn't believe I was doing that, actually reading a book. And, man, it opened up a whole new thing. Reading became the sparkplug of my imagination.

I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature at school and taking that into Shakespeare and finding that opened up a whole world of self-expression to me that I didn't have access to previously.

I also have a role model back in New Zealand, a woman called Miranda Harcourt. She's an actress and a writer. Her willingness to stay open to material is really great. I read a lot, and I try to watch and listen to diverse material.

A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

Books always help.

I think that one of the things you have to do to become a storyteller is spend a lot of time reading stories.

I am happy to keep working on books because I'm always reading, and I'm always trying to fall in love.

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.