Dennis Hopper was not a filmmaker.
Colors is a 1988 American police procedural action crime film starring Sean Penn and Robert Duvall , and directed by Dennis Hopper . Dennis Hopper . He went on to helm his third directorial work Out of the Blue ( 1980 ) , for which he was again honored at Cannes , and appeared in Rumble Fish ( 1983 ) and The Osterman Weekend ( 1983 ) . His fourth directorial outing came about through Colors ( 1988 ) , followed by an Emmy-nominated lead performance in Paris Trout ( 1991 ) . Out of the Blue ( released in Canada as No Looking Back ) is a 1980 Canadian drama film directed by and starring Dennis Hopper .