Best Gus Van Sant Sayings
- Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s. 80s
- Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking. Always Referred
- Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining your… Bastion
- The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules of suspense, you are supposed to… Becomes
- The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our 'me' generation, our… Aspect
- With 'Good Will Hunting,' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited experience,… Audience
- Free time keeps me going. It's just something that's always been a part of my life. I was originally a painter, and I made films… Been
- I don't think American independent films have ever really been particularly experimental, except for the original guys from the '60s who were huge influences, like… American
- I think over the course of 14 films, I'm returning to a place that I know to tell a story... the same way Spielberg returned… Course
- I'm thinking of remaking 'Psycho' again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a… Change
- I've always been interested in how to present something that relates to our reality - which is not really... I don't even know if documentary… Been
- If you put up posters around town for high-school kids, high-school kids will come. If you're casting politicians, you can't put up posters and have… Around Town
- My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and… All
- My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years,… Chicago
- The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you have to know… Art
- There's a lot of films that have relatively rigid road maps because they have a script and others that are less rigid because they have… All
- You're following your track, the story, your only plan, your map for the audience, and all the other stuff is, like, the fun stuff: the… Actor
- The media has gone through lots of things that make it a less foreign thing to have your lead character be gay. Character
- Usually people just hire me. Hire
- Yeah, I try to be really calm. Calm
- I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic… Dramatic