George Hickenlooper Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.
-
Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
-
I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
-
I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
-
You have to be brave when you've got a kid.
-
Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth.
-
All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
-
If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
-
Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.
-
I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
-
It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.
-
I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.
-
The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.
-
I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.
-
There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
-
I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.
-
We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong.
-
I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.
-
I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then.
-
As this body of knowledge has evolved, a much more critical job for researchers and scientists has evolved into explaining and educating policy makers and the public to the risks of global warming and the possible consequences of action or of no action.
-
I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're not.
-
Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional, and the emotion in the music is built in, whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it's performed.
-
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.
