George Hickenlooper famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.
-- George Hickenlooper

#Humble #Humility #Keys
I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.
-- George Hickenlooper

#Art #Thinking #Cinema
Theres something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gilded age, and the culture of individualism became a culture of avarice.
-- George Hickenlooper

#Responsibility #Unique #Rights
Most people, 95% of people, are good people. Its the 5% who get seduced by power.
-- George Hickenlooper

#People #Good People
Im very strongly in favor of the auteur theory.
-- George Hickenlooper

#Favors #Auteur Theory #Auteurs
Im fascinated by failure, and Im fascinated by finality. Shakespeares historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.
-- George Hickenlooper

#Beautiful #Play #Historical
Generally in my films like Hearts of Darkness or Picture This, I try not to make myself a presence in the film.
-- George Hickenlooper

#Heart #Darkness #Trying
The promise of celebrity is a transcendental human state of existence. It's not real. We do know the fact that celebrities as mortal beings exist and if you are looking for love by being famous or being around the famous - ultimately that goes away.
-- George Hickenlooper

#Real #Promise #Facts
I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something.
-- George Hickenlooper

#Movie #Creating #Hollywood
The arc of the celebrity phenomenon ultimately is: everything turns to dust and everything does go away.
-- George Hickenlooper

#Dust #Going Away #Doe
Obviously you have a responsibility - one would like to think there is such a thing as ethics in filmmaking.
-- George Hickenlooper

#Responsibility #Thinking #Ethics
At times doc filmmaking feels more rewarding creatively. Because you are creating something out of pure cinema - instead of narrative cinema, where you've got a script and a cast and you build from your foundation, whereas in documentary, you're building out of chaos.
-- George Hickenlooper

#Creating #Documentaries #Foundation
Docs are more exhausting because of the physical labor that's required. Feature filmmaking is more exhausting because of politics and the bullshit. You get to the point of rolling film and until you lock picture it's one political game after another. They're both struggles for survival. They are two different worlds.
-- George Hickenlooper

#Struggle #Two #Games

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