Gus Van Sant

I knew about Heatmiser, and I saw them one time at Pine Street [later changed to La Luna], which was the center…

— Gus Van Sant

Digital information, for every type of storage, is unfounded. If everything is on a hard drive and the hard drive freezes up,…

— 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

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

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

Upon entering my vein, the drug would start a warm edge that would surge along until the brain consumed it in a…

— Gus Van Sant

Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family,…

— Gus Van Sant

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

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

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

With 'Good Will Hunting,' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From…

— Gus Van Sant

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

The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our…

— 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

The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you…

— Gus Van Sant

It's hard to speculate as a human about the afterlife because you're not in it. And it's probably as wild and wacky…

— Gus Van Sant

My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago…

— 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

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

Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last…

— Gus Van Sant

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

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