"Apparently there’s this kind of songbird that thinks……" — Gus Van Sant
"Apparently there’s this kind of songbird that thinks it dies every time the sun goes down. In the morning, when it wakes up, it’s totally shocked to still be alive—so it sings this really beautiful song."
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71 Quotes by Gus Van Sant
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And Later I Thought, I Can't Think How Anyone Can Become a Director Without Learning the Craft of Cinematography.
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Sometimes getting upset with yourself is necessary when you face the truth.
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I'm a junkie. I like drugs, I like the whole lifestyle, but it just didn't pay off.
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If Im diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with…
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Joanna Priestley is one of the most interesting and adept personal animators and filmmakers. I have enjoyed her work for…
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The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But…
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The biopic also wasn't a form that I necessarily believed in, because you can never really get it right, you…
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I'm not being analytical. I just create everything intuitively. If you're too analytical, what you're doing probably ends up being…
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I have this new theory about films. It’s almost like astrology, where if we started on a Tuesday the film…
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I used to take photographs just to remember people.
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In high school, I read 'Silas Marner' and I was very attracted to this character - he was very rundown…
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In rare cases, I've had music before I shot the movie. I think that for 'Good Will Hunting' I had…
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There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the…
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were…
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I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.
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Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
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The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up…
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and…
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me…
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I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express…
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My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful…
— Travis Barker
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As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then…
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The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I…
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