#on

The one thing a lifetime in the newspaper business teaches you is pace - you spend all your time trying to make sure that the reader's going to finish what you're writing. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#finish #going #lifetime #make #newspaper

We've always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#been #fascinated #fascination #movie #movie stars

When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#break #down #else #i #mostly

When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#chin #column #fence #getting #given

Every human longs for peace and love. ↗

— Hiawatha

#human #longs #love #peace #peace and love

As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and only the work. ↗

— George Hickenlooper

#classically #filmmaker #find #i #more

Leonardo DiCaprio is a very serious young actor. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#dicaprio #leonardo #leonardo dicaprio #serious #very

It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty! ↗

— Anne Sullivan

#almighty #always #any #continue #emergency

I 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

#art #art forms #art history #cinema #culmination

I was very inspired by Les Blank's film 'Burden of Dreams.' I think what's unique about his film and the two I've made is that they're close examinations of filmmakers and how their own emotional experiences reflect in the material they're rendering, and vice versa - how that material sometimes colors their own lives. ↗

— George Hickenlooper

#blank #burden #close #colors #dreams