'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 more important audiences. There were the similarly involved folks who saw it that were part of the struggle, but there… — Gordon Quinn Copy Share
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 I love about documentary filmmaking, we never know where the story is going, we don't know what is going to happen next, and we're inside a culture of people that you have to figure out in… — Gordon Quinn Copy Share
That's what I love about documentary filmmaking, we never know where the story is going, we don't know what is going to… — Gordon Quinn Copy Share Image
'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 more important audiences. There were the similarly involved folks who saw it that were part of the struggle, but there… — Gordon Quinn Copy Share
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 I love about documentary filmmaking, we never know where the story is going, we don't know what is going to happen next, and we're inside a culture of people that you have to figure out in… — Gordon Quinn Copy Share
What makes 'Hoop Dreams' such a powerful film, is that it carries a message that maybe we can do something about our problems in… — Gordon Quinn Copy Share Image
'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… — Gordon Quinn Copy Share Image
Leon Golub was a painter. He was an artist struggling to make it in the New York City art world, but at the same… — Gordon Quinn Copy Share Image
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,… — Gordon Quinn Copy Share Image
Every ten years or so, I liked to do a film about an artist - this allowed me to reflect on our own work. — Gordon Quinn Copy Share Image
