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.
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I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.
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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.'
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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.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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You have to be brave when you've got a kid.
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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.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
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Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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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.
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I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.
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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.
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There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
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We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong.
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I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.
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My senior thesis was a documentary. By the time I graduated from college, I thought I was going to make films, and my interest in acting was there but kind of confused.
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Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.
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I probably suffered with depression.
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The Bible is not merely a book-it is a living power. . . . Nowhere as in the Bible can be found such a series of beautiful ideas and admirable maxims which pose before us like the battalions of a celestial army. . . . The soul can never go astray while it has this book for its guide.
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Military history shows air action only cannot achieve the goal of defeating an enemy.
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The species and the genus are always the work of nature; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art.
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I was the child who would leave school and take her clothes off the second I got into the house. I made my mom buy me lingerie when I was 5 years old. I was a sicko. My mother must have been mortified.
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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.
