John Curran

John Curran
John Curran is an American film director and screenwriter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth11 September 1960
CountryUnited States of America
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There are so many machines connected to the Internet, you will see ... attempts to sweep a whole range of Internet addresses looking for hosts that have weaknesses. It's like testing doorknobs.
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The spirit around leaving New York, for me, was that I just felt I needed to do something really outside of my comfort zone. And I really couldn't tell you at the time why I needed to do it. It wasn't like I was running from something dark; it was a desire to shake things up.
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I sort of came from a big family - eight kids - and I guess I always, more than most people, really revel in privacy and solitude sometimes.
The worst thing for a filmmaker is for a film to be labeled as pretentious or heavy-handed.
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There's something about Alan Arkin. Even when he's doing nothing, he makes me laugh. I've always had that reaction to him: he's got a weary world-view that makes him perfectly cast.
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The threats out there are all manageable. We don't have a silver bullet against any of them, but there is nothing that can't be overcome with good practices.
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As soon as they switched over, I knew it was Kristi on the ground. They said Kristi Yamaoka, and I was out the door. I didn't lock my door or anything.
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We're still trying to figure out the pain-cost trade-off. You can't rely on the entire ANX customer base to be a captive market, and ANX is small relative to the business-service market in general.
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Like a lot of films at the end of 2008, they hit a wall with financing, which is why I moved back onto 'Stone.' In doing so, I had to let go of 'The Beautiful and the Damned,' to at least give them an opportunity to move forward with somebody else.
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'Tracks' is based on the book by Robyn Davidson who, in the mid-Seventies, decided to leave the city, go to the outback, learn to train camels and walk across the Australian desert to the ocean: a journey that is about two thousand miles and will take about six or seven months.
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As long as there's really good actors that use their clout to support fringe films, whatever genre it is, they'll still get made.
A film is different than a script. The text of the script is what it is.
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I personally think that's incredibly therapeutic to just be alone in your own thoughts and not be freaking out.
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I'm not the kind of director who imposes his processes on everybody else.