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Im very strongly in favor of the auteur theory.
George Hickenlooper / Filmmaker
Auteur Theory
Auteurs
Favors
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I'm very strongly in favor of the auteur theory.
George Hickenlooper / Filmmaker
Theory
Favor
Strongly
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Most people, 95% of people, are good people. Its the 5% who get seduced by power.
George Hickenlooper / Filmmaker
Good People
People
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Most people, 95% of people, are good people. It's the 5% who get seduced by power.
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Good People
Good Power People
Seduced
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The arc of the celebrity phenomenon ultimately is: everything turns to dust and everything does go away.
George Hickenlooper / Filmmaker
Doe
Dust
Going Away
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Obviously you have a responsibility - one would like to think there is such a thing as ethics in filmmaking.
George Hickenlooper / Filmmaker
Ethics
Responsibility
Thinking
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Generally in my films like Hearts of Darkness or Picture This, I try not to make myself a presence in the film.
George Hickenlooper / Filmmaker
Darkness
Heart
Trying
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Generally in my films like 'Hearts of Darkness' or 'Picture This,' I try not to make myself a presence in the film.
George Hickenlooper / Filmmaker
Hearts
Presence
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I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.
George Hickenlooper / Filmmaker
Be Humble
Firm
Humble
Humility
Keys
Openness
Beliefs
Compromising
Without
Say
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As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and only the work.
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Rewarding
Trained
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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 / Filmmaker
Movie
Canvas
Creating
Fiction
Filmmaking
Hollywood
Hollywood Movies
Love Movies Your
Independents
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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 / Filmmaker
Art
Movie
Architecture
Actors
Cinema
Culmination
Filmmaking
Narrative
Pure
Thinking
Art Forms
Forms
Purest Form
Several
Whereas
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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.
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Beautiful
Historical
Play
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I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's 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 / Filmmaker
Fascinated
Finality
Relate
Comedies
Plays
Shakespeare
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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.
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Facts
Promise
Real
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Simon Monjack had nothing to do with 'Factory Girl.' He filed a frivolous lawsuit against us... making bogus claims that we had stolen his script. He held us literally to hostage and we were forced to settle with him as he held our production over a barrel.
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Claims
Frivolous
Lawsuit
Stolen
Barrel
Factory
Forced
Held
Literally
Script
Settle
Simon
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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.
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Creating
Documentaries
Foundation
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Kelly Preston is a remarkable human being and a great dramatic actress. It was a privilege as a director to tap into this part of her. Rarely do I make a kind of spiritual connection with my cast. Kelly was a wonderful exception. She is truly very special and I adore her.
George Hickenlooper / Filmmaker
Adore
Dramatic
Exception
Remarkable
Spiritual
Connection
Tap
Human Being
Rarely
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There's been a vacuum with movies that people can relate to. There's been a paucity of dramas that people can relate to. I think audiences are clamoring to connect - particularly after 9/11 - with things that are genuine and real and I think documentaries are filling that need.
George Hickenlooper / Filmmaker
Documentaries
Filling
Genuine
Relate
Movies People Real
Connect
Dramas
Vacuum
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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.
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Games
Struggle
Two
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I was very inspired by Les Blank's film 'Burden of Dreams.' I think what's unique about his film and the two I've made is that they're close examinations of filmmakers and how their own emotional experiences reflect in the material they're rendering, and vice versa - how that material sometimes colors their own lives.
George Hickenlooper / Filmmaker
Blank
Burden
Inspired
Rendering
Unique
Vice Versa
Colors
Emotional Experiences
Examinations
Filmmakers
Les
Reflect
Versa
Vice
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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 / Filmmaker
Responsibility
Rights
Unique
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There's 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 / Filmmaker
Age
Avarice
Gilded
Individual
Individual Rights
Lost
Responsibility
Rights
Social
States
Unique
United States
Became
Civic
Entered
Mission
Sense
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Narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verité is film in its purest form. You're taking random images and creating meaning out of random images, telling a story, getting meaning, capturing something that's real, that's really happening, and render this celluloid sculpture of this real thing. That's what really separates the power of doc filmmaking from fiction.
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