“Generally in my films like Hearts of Darkness or Picture This, I try not to make myself a presence in the film.” TryingHeartFilmDarknessHeart Of Darkness Author:George Hickenlooper
“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.” ArtRealStoriesFilmFormFictionPureCreatingHappeningsTheaterArchitectureNarrativeCinemaFilmmakingSculptureReal ThingsArt HistoryCulminationCelluloid Author:George Hickenlooper
“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.” WorldTwoDifferentFilmPoliticalGamesStruggleSurvivalLaborFeaturesFilmmakingLocksRollingBullshitExhaustingDifferent WorldsPolitical GamesStruggle For SurvivalTwo Different Worlds Author:George Hickenlooper
“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.” ThinkingArtFilmFormActorsFictionPureTheaterArchitectureNarrativeCinemaMovieFilmmakingArt HistoryCulmination Author:George Hickenlooper
