Filmmaking Quote by 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 my limited…

— 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 Smith record…

— Gus Van Sant

I suppose what you're doing as a painter is making a record of your trip through life. I can't think of any job that…

— Robert Genn

I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me,…

— Martin Mull

I feel like I'm still learning a lot. I think there's a tendency for people who are just doing their first couple of films…

— Anna Kendrick

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

— Jeff Bridges

I come from a filmmaking tradition and a storytelling background. So somehow I've emerged like a mutant who can straddle both worlds.

— Alex Gibney

What I might do is watch Mrs Doubtfire. Or Dead Poets Society or Good Will Hunting and I might be nice to people, mindful…

— Russell Brand

I had one of those light bulb 'a ha' moments while screening 'Good Will Hunting' in Camp David in 1998 - Madeleine Albright and…

— Lawrence Bender

It's not hard to understand why an accomplished director like Gus Van Sant (whose most recent success, Good Will Hunting, gave him mainstream clout)…

— James Berardinelli

In 1998, I was screening 'Good Will Hunting' at Camp David. And I was saying, 'Nice to meet you, Mr. President. Nice to meet…

— Lawrence Bender

Then, there was Greenpeace, I remember that when they first started out with the boats in the waters, and the guys in the boats…

— Rick Danko