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Gus Van Sant quotes: I mean, I think I'm pretty sentimental.

I mean, I think I'm pretty sentimental.

Gus Van Sant quotes: Sometimes, the people who are helping you can drop the ball.

Sometimes, the people who are helping you can drop the ball.

Gus Van Sant quotes: I had wanted to do a comedy.

I had wanted to do a comedy.

Gus Van Sant quotes: When you're on a film and you're doubting something, it's usually because you don't think the audience is going to like it.

When you're on a film and you're doubting something, it's usually because you don't think the audience is going to like it.

Gus Van Sant quotes: I've always been attracted to temporary families.

I've always been attracted to temporary families.

Gus Van Sant quotes: Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

Gus Van Sant quotes: When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult.

When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult.

Gus Van Sant quotes: Sometimes I wish I had never met you, because then I could go to sleep at night not knowing there was someone like you out there.

Sometimes I wish I had never met you, because then I could go to sleep at night not knowing there was someone like you out there.

Gus Van Sant quotes: I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story.

I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story.

Gus Van Sant quotes: I'm a junkie. I like drugs, I like the whole lifestyle, but it just didn't pay off.

I'm a junkie. I like drugs, I like the whole lifestyle, but it just didn't pay off.

Gus Van Sant quotes: I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.

I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.

Gus Van Sant quotes: Sometimes getting upset with yourself is necessary when you face the truth.

Sometimes getting upset with yourself is necessary when you face the truth.

Gus Van Sant quotes: Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.

Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.

Gus Van Sant quotes: Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s.

Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s.

Gus Van Sant quotes: For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.

Gus Van Sant quotes: Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

Gus Van Sant quotes: Yeah, I try to be really calm.

Yeah, I try to be really calm.

Gus Van Sant quotes: You know, I don't think I had a concept of what I would be or do.

You know, I don't think I had a concept of what I would be or do.

Gus Van Sant quotes: It's when you start doing things for free, that you start to grow wings.

It's when you start doing things for free, that you start to grow wings.

Gus Van Sant quotes: No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.

No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.

Gus Van Sant quotes: I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.

I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.

Gus Van Sant quotes: Casting the locals is my primary concern because all the other things you assume will be manageable.

Casting the locals is my primary concern because all the other things you assume will be manageable.

Gus Van Sant quotes: Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.

Gus Van Sant quotes: If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas.

If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas.

Gus Van Sant quotes: I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film.

I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film.

Gus Van Sant quotes: Everything's changing so fast that it's sometimes hard to keep up.

Everything's changing so fast that it's sometimes hard to keep up.

Gus Van Sant quotes: If a movie isn't released, it's one thing, but if you know it will be, it's nice to have closure and see it come out.

If a movie isn't released, it's one thing, but if you know it will be, it's nice to have closure and see it come out.

Gus Van Sant quotes: I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it.

I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it.

Gus Van Sant quotes: If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all.

If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all.

Gus Van Sant quotes: Usually people just hire me.

Usually people just hire me.

Gus Van Sant quotes: I used to take photographs just to remember people.

I used to take photographs just to remember people.

Gus Van Sant quotes: Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking.

Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking.

Gus Van Sant quotes: I'm not being analytical. I just create everything intuitively. If you're too analytical, what you're doing probably ends up being too specific.

I'm not being analytical. I just create everything intuitively. If you're too analytical, what you're doing probably ends up being too specific.

Gus Van Sant quotes: As I do with most films, I try and find some music that you could use throughout, not just a sampling of lots of different artists.

As I do with most films, I try and find some music that you could use throughout, not just a sampling of lots of different artists.

Gus Van Sant quotes: I'm going in a really weird I-don't-know-where direction, but I prefer anything [different] from how standardized filmmaking has become.

I'm going in a really weird I-don't-know-where direction, but I prefer anything [different] from how standardized filmmaking has become.

Gus Van Sant quotes: Free time keeps me going.

Free time keeps me going.

Gus Van Sant quotes: I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

Gus Van Sant quotes: The media has gone through lots of things that make it a less foreign thing to have your lead character be gay.

The media has gone through lots of things that make it a less foreign thing to have your lead character be gay.

Gus Van Sant quotes: My department is to get actors to do stuff.

My department is to get actors to do stuff.

Gus Van Sant quotes: Movement provides life's questions and life's answers simultaneously.

Movement provides life's questions and life's answers simultaneously.

Gus Van Sant quotes: There's always a risk if you don't do things the way you've done things before.

There's always a risk if you don't do things the way you've done things before.