"Unlike the studio days, where [directors were] under contract, there's no vested interest in filmmakers today, so it's one picture at a time. Nobody cares about the longevity of a director's career today. What they care about is making a successful movie. Consequently, if somebody does something that's successful, they then throw a lot of money and opportunity at them to try and duplicate it. You get into a situation where people are in a sense trying to duplicate what they did well, but usually to diminishing returns."

(Curtis Lee Hanson, regista, sceneggiatore e produttore cinematografico; Reno, 24 marzo 1945 – Los Angeles, 20 settembre 2016)