Gus Van Sant

You're following your track, the story, your only plan, your map for the audience, and all the other stuff is, like, the…

— Gus Van Sant

If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and…

— Gus Van Sant

I've always been interested in how to present something that relates to our reality - which is not really... I don't even…

— Gus Van Sant

Sometimes getting upset with yourself is necessary when you face the truth.

— Gus Van Sant

I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.

— Gus Van Sant

When I was 14, I felt very rundown; I had a home to go to, but I felt like I was 60…

— Gus Van Sant

In high school, I read 'Silas Marner' and I was very attracted to this character - he was very rundown and he'd…

— Gus Van Sant

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.

— Gus Van Sant

I try to shoot the first rehearsal because people are more spontaneous. People in real life don't really know where they are…

— Gus Van Sant

Yeah, I try to be really calm.

— Gus Van Sant

Joanna Priestley is one of the most interesting and adept personal animators and filmmakers. I have enjoyed her work for years and…

— Gus Van Sant

When I grew up in the '60s, we were actually dominated by this, you know, sort of conforming '50s culture, even though…

— Gus Van Sant

One of the things that is devastating is I realise I haven't been living a different life than when I was, like,…

— Gus Van Sant

If Im diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside…

— Gus Van Sant

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

I think that what I'm attracted to is people who are wild. But the self-destructive side comes out of the wild side.…

— Gus Van Sant

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

— Gus Van Sant

The biopic also wasn't a form that I necessarily believed in, because you can never really get it right, you know? It's…

— Gus Van Sant

I did 'Mala Noche' as a way to do something that was outside of the system, because I was outside of the…

— Gus Van Sant

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

The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no…

— Gus Van Sant

Usually when I read something, first of all I'm looking for the story and then when I reread it, I'm sort of…

— Gus Van Sant

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

I've always been attracted to temporary families.

— Gus Van Sant

Narcotics have been systematically scapegoated and demonized. The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is ananathema to…

— Gus Van Sant