Quotes about hopper (16 Quotes)




    I recognize very much in Hopper that it does look like the United States; it looks like the 30's and my first impressions of everything, all of which I have to deal with and which gets mixed up in my work and probably gets mixed up in everybody else's work too.


    Ruling over everyone in the rich folks' enclave is the sinister Kaufman, amusingly played by Dennis Hopper part CEO, part unelected president. He gets the best line in the film when a frowning apparatchik asks if there is any trouble. In a world where the dead have returned to life, ... the word 'trouble' loses much of its meaning.


    I'm publicizing the book that's done. I'm writing the book that's in the hopper, and I'm doing a little advance research on the book to come.

    I am the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton County at your service . . . Some folks are silly enough to have formed a plan to make a president of the U.S. out of this clerk and clod hopper.

    Butte was once a grand city. To me, that city is like one big stage for Edward Hopper. You could put your camera anywhere, and you felt you were looking at his paintings.



    We are going to rebuild New Orleans more or less where it is, so we start out with a lot of constraints on the process, ... It is time to put a lot of interesting ideas in the hopper, but it is certainly clear that pre-conceived ideological notions ... are going to prove lacking.


    This is a case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater, ... Frankly, I think there was a lot of effort to just get things into the hopper, so I don't know how much thought went into these proposals.



    I think some of the things I deal with Hopper probably has dealt with also, since it's somewhat the same environment and I have pretty strong reactions to what this country looks like. It looks pretty dull and spare, and you like this and dislike it and it's very complicated.



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