'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 America, reflected in the resiliency and strength of those families that we portrayed. The film was where we really saw the characters that we care about, interwoven with a analysis that is trying to help the… — Gordon Quinn Copy Share
'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 lot of effort. I remember talking to someone who should have gotten it, this person was in Public Television, and they didn't think we had a story, until 'maybe something bad happens to one of the… — Gordon Quinn Copy Share
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
