DENNIS HOPPER INTERVIEW ON GIANT & GEORGE STEVENS PART 2

DENNIS HOPPER (1983)interviewed by John A. Gallagher

The original indie maverick talks about working with screen legends James Dean, John Wayne, Nicholas Ray, George Stevens, Sam Peckinpah and Francis Coppola on such films as REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955), GIANT (1956), SONS OF KATIE ELDER (1965), TRUE GRIT (1969), and APOCALYPSE NOW (1977). He discusses directing and starring in his counter-culture classic EASY RIDER (1969) and gives a fascinating demonstration of Method Acting.
From 1982 to 1992, John Gallagher and Ira Gallen collaborated on the cable TV show THE DIRECTORS SERIES, featuring John's incisive ... all » interviews with hundreds of cinema personalities past and present. Lee Marvin, Dennis Hopper, Sir Richard Attenborough, Sydney Pollack, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Anne Francis, James Toback, Robert Downey Sr., Wolfgang Petersen (in his first American interview upon the release of DAS BOOT), Sam Raimi (in his very first video interview, promoting THE EVIL DEAD) -- these are just a few of the many filmmakers represented in Gallagher's candid, in-depth filmmaker-on-filmmaker interviews. The shows were produced and edited by Gallen, photographed by Gallen and Billy Coleman (longtime SOPRANOS camera operator). The shows aired in New York on Manhattan Cable TV, and nationally through various film school outlets, and are now available for the first time on Google Video. For more information visit www.TVDays.com. More on John Gallagher at www.myspace.com/jgmovie «

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[TheChoice264]

Fuck, he had me at 5:31!

[VanNostrande]

I never really cared for his roles as an actor, but the guy does know what he's talking about. He would be better off as a teacher.

[jacobladders]

@VanNostrande well maybe dennis hopper dosen't give a fuck about you that much either

[viralvulture]

@VanNostrande he's dead

[mark88bon]

@TheChoice264 yeah but he got me even more at 4.15 !! Way more impressive and convincing.

[damonchernavsky]

to all the haters ... When you do not understand something that someone is explaining - and instead of it arrousing a "how come I don't get it" type of question, you disreguard it as being stupid or making no sence --- means you are a pretty monotonus person who probably doesnt know much about anything ....

[oldhacks]

this musta been when he just got out of the crazy ward

[RollingOrmond]

Wonder if Owen Wilson is his love child.

[jblacktree]

@VanNostrande Thank you for sharing your stupidity.

[girl43]

Man! he knew how to be an actor, with all of his heart and soul.

[Finallythankyou]

Now that Dennis Hopper is dead all is gay.

[tk848]

R.I.P. Dennis