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Trying Quotes by 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 the film that…
- 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…
- When I grew up in the '60s, we were actually dominated by this, you know, sort of conforming '50s culture, even though we were like…
- Yeah, Kubrick's a big influence. In something like 'A Clockwork Orange,' he is trying to use the practical light - I mean, at least he…
- Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.
- I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story.
- 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'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…
More Trying Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash