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George Hickenlooper

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.

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George Hickenlooper is saying that making fictional movies combines different arts like theater, painting, and building design. In contrast, documentary films focus more on the raw, unfiltered nature of cinema itself, showing reality as directly as possible.

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