Hoop Dreams

“Hoop Dreams, another great documentary, one of the great documentaries of all time about one of the great sports. Basketball is more important to me than most things in my life and I think what this film does so purely is it gets in touch with our collective human longing to make something meaningful out of this life. It's a film about our essential needs as human beings to be a part of something bigger than ourselves, to try to follow the image of a dream.”

“Hoop Dreams. This is a hell of a picture.”

“Hoop Dreams. I’m given to superlatives, but I think it’s the best sports movie ever made. I think it’s the best movie of the ’90s. I think it’s the best Chicago movie. Can’t lose with Hoop Dreams.”

“Hoop Dreams. It represents everything I love about basketball and everything I kind of find to be deeply sad about basketball as well. It was one of the first documentaries I ever saw, and it was something that my Mother showed me. And in light of how well the Knicks are doing and the incredible comeback that happened last night, and how much of a fan I am of them and basketball just in general – it really was my first love – this movie kind of encapsulates all of that.”

“This is going to be really jock-like of me, but you know I’m really into basketball right now, so I’m going to give you Hoop Dreams, which is an amazing documentary. Have you seen it? I’ve seen it, but I’ll take it. Okay, jeez. I love Hoop Dreams. It’s a beautiful film. I love it. Except I didn’t realize until now it was basketball.”