Generally in my films like Hearts of Darkness or Picture This, I try not to make myself a presence in the film.
George HickenlooperMost people, 95% of people, are good people. Its the 5% who get seduced by power.
George HickenlooperI 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 HickenlooperTheres 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