Gentrification can be a plague, as it eats up neighborhoods.

- 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, and we're inside…

- 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 lot of eff…

- 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 America, reflected i…

- 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.

- 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 time he was a very political guy, an…

- 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 three hours long …

- 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 I love about docum…

- Gordon Quinn