Gus Van Sant Quotes

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• And Later I Thought, I Can't Think How Anyone Can Become a Director Without Learning the Craft of Cinematography.
• Sometimes getting upset with yourself is necessary when you face the truth.
• I'm a junkie. I like drugs, I like the whole lifestyle, but it just didn't pay off.
• If Im diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside their circle of…
• Joanna Priestley is one of the most interesting and adept personal animators and filmmakers. I have enjoyed her work for years and been amazed at…
• The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox…
• The biopic also wasn't a form that I necessarily believed in, because you can never really get it right, you know? It's also a form…
• I'm not being analytical. I just create everything intuitively. If you're too analytical, what you're doing probably ends up being too specific.
• I have this new theory about films. It’s almost like astrology, where if we started on a Tuesday the film will be different than if…
• I used to take photographs just to remember people.
• Apparently there’s this kind of songbird that thinks it dies every time the sun goes down. In the morning, when it wakes up, it’s totally…
• In high school, I read 'Silas Marner' and I was very attracted to this character - he was very rundown and he'd just stop, and…
• In rare cases, I've had music before I shot the movie. I think that for 'Good Will Hunting' I had an Elliot Smith record or…
• 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 the film that…
• One of the things that is devastating is I realise I haven't been living a different life than when I was, like, 12. I'm shocked…
• The reason I know about 'Tomb Raider' is from when I was researching 'Elephant.' It was 1999, and I was trying to research the Columbine-massacre…
• 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 like…
• There is a way that a younger person can accept the inevitable problem that they're going to die, whereas somebody a little bit older might…
• Usually when I read something, first of all I'm looking for the story and then when I reread it, I'm sort of checking every part…
• There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of…

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