George Hickenlooper Quotes

You become the movie you are making.

I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.

People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work.

Many people who have watched 'Pieta' have said my filmmaking has become more objective.

Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

As a writer, you rely on whatever makes you up as a person, whether those things are twisted and nasty or otherwise.

I have 30 years of experience working with Leos Carax, so all the films of Leos Carax are unusual or unique. I look at them as a journey: a journey which is very personal to Leos.

I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.

I didn't really know how to make a film when I made 'Control'. I had to create my own language, just as I did when I started taking photographs. I never studied either one.

Sure, you always put some of your own experience into a film.

If I've seen the movie, it means it's an influence on my own filmmaking. Every movie has a reflection in 'Night Watch.'

You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.

If it were all in the script, why make the film?

I consider all my films experiments.

I love David Fincher - even though it was just two scenes, I loved the way we worked and could tell by the way he was shooting it that this was going to be an affective movie to say the least.

I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

If I hadn't had that decade in the music industry and, perhaps more importantly, time to reach the point of being sick and disgusted with it, I wouldn't have written 'Kill Your Friends.' That book gave me my whole career.

I guess that in this process of trying to incorporate or to be faithful to the films I admire so much, that's how I start to find my own voice. The admiration I have for filmmakers, this gratitude, perhaps that's my only way to become specific.

I see bits and pieces of me in all the characters in my films.

Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing.

Their films would probably be better if they'd seen a few more films, which runs counter to this idiotic theory that you run the risk of being influenced if you see too much.

Usually, I think, every film I've made has been a book, and I've always read it.

I don't think events in your life affect your music.

All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.