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> ['Hoop Dreams' brought us back to our roots in veríté filmmaking. What we saw in the powerful emotional scenes within it - at nearly three hours long and with no star power - was an outreach to a different and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-quinn/hoop-dreams-brought-us-back-to-our-roots-in-ver-t-filmmaking-what-we/)

[Gordon Quinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-quinn/)

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## More by Gordon Quinn

> ['Hoop Dreams' brought us back to our roots in veríté filmmaking. What we saw in the powerful emotional scenes within it - at nearly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-quinn/hoop-dreams-brought-us-back-to-our-roots-in-ver-t-filmmaking-what-we/)

[Gordon Quinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-quinn/)

> [None of our films look alike, we are very dialectical in our approach to each one, and 'Hoop Dreams' was no exception. That's what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-quinn/none-of-our-films-look-alike-we-are-very-dialectical-in-our-approach/)

[Gordon Quinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-quinn/)

> [What makes 'Hoop Dreams' such a powerful film, is that it carries a message that maybe we can do something about our problems in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-quinn/what-makes-hoop-dreams-such-a-powerful-film-is-that-it-carries-a/)

[Gordon Quinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-quinn/)

> ['Hoop Dreams'was an unbelievable struggle. We were trying to raise money in the midst of shooting it, and just explaining to people took a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-quinn/hoop-dreams-was-an-unbelievable-struggle-we-were-trying-to-raise/)

[Gordon Quinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-quinn/)

> [Leon Golub was a painter. He was an artist struggling to make it in the New York City art world, but at the same…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-quinn/leon-golub-was-a-painter-he-was-an-artist-struggling-to-make-it-in/)

[Gordon Quinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-quinn/)

> [Gentrification can be a plague, as it eats up neighborhoods.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-quinn/gentrification-can-be-a-plague-as-it-eats-up-neighborhoods/)

[Gordon Quinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-quinn/)

> [That's what I love about documentary filmmaking, we never know where the story is going, we don't know what is going to happen next,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-quinn/that-s-what-i-love-about-documentary-filmmaking-we-never-know-where/)

[Gordon Quinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-quinn/)

> [Every ten years or so, I liked to do a film about an artist - this allowed me to reflect on our own work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-quinn/every-ten-years-or-so-i-liked-to-do-a-film-about-an-artist-this/)

[Gordon Quinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-quinn/)

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