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Film Quotes by Gus Van Sant
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 conspiring…
- Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.
- The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space…
- I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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- I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments. — Dan Aykroyd
- I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films. — Amitabh Bachchan
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