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.
George HickenlooperMost people, 95% of people, are good people. Its the 5% who get seduced by power.
George HickenlooperObviously you have a responsibility - one would like to think there is such a thing as ethics in filmmaking.
George HickenlooperThe 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.
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 Hickenlooper