I'm going in a really weird I-don't-know-where direction, but I prefer anything [different] from how standardized filmmaking has become. — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information. — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film. — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film. — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking. — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of ways that people present their films, but that's kind of a good feeling, if you can make… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
As I do with most films, I try and find some music that you could use throughout, not just a sampling of… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
If a movie isn't released, it's one thing, but if you know it will be, it's nice to have closure and see… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
I think that for the actors, the last thing that they want is a director that's not watching, a director that goes… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
I've told people who have just started to make a film that the one thing you might experience is this feeling that… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
I have this new theory about films. It’s almost like astrology, where if we started on a Tuesday the film will be… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
There's a lot of films that have relatively rigid road maps because they have a script and others that are less rigid… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
Free time keeps me going. It's just something that's always been a part of my life. I was originally a painter, and… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
In rare cases, I've had music before I shot the movie. I think that for 'Good Will Hunting' I had an Elliot… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
A lot of times, I relied on connections through my agency, just for financing and things like that. Even when I'm looking… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
When you're on a film and you're doubting something, it's usually because you don't think the audience is going to like it. — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
I'm thinking of remaking 'Psycho' again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
I think over the course of 14 films, I'm returning to a place that I know to tell a story... the same… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
I don't think American independent films have ever really been particularly experimental, except for the original guys from the '60s who were… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
I hadn't made a big-budget film, and in Hollywood there's a sort of man and boys situation. You're a man, you make… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
I don't usually direct actors in the classic sense of that word. Instead, I try to remind the characters before the shoot… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our 'me' generation,… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share
My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share
No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high. — Gus Van Sant Copy Share
I've told people who have just started to make a film that the one thing you might experience is this feeling that everybody is… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share
A lot of times, I relied on connections through my agency, just for financing and things like that. Even when I'm looking for a… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share
I'm a junkie. I like drugs, I like the whole lifestyle, but it just didn't pay off. — Gus Van Sant Copy Share
There are all kinds of ways that people present their films, but that's kind of a good feeling, if you can make it seem… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share
I find it interesting, the different rules that apply to journalism and drama, even though journalism has become more and more about entertainment, and… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share
As I do with most films, I try and find some music that you could use throughout, not just a sampling of lots of… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share
When you're on a film and you're doubting something, it's usually because you don't think the audience is going to like it. — Gus Van Sant Copy Share
I don't usually direct actors in the classic sense of that word. Instead, I try to remind the characters before the shoot what's going… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share
When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult. — Gus Van Sant Copy Share
The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you have to… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share
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