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

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

I had wanted to do a comedy. — Gus Van Sant

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I want to thank Gus Van Sant for selling out so that I could use his editor Curtis Clayton, who did a great job. — Vincent Gallo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Usually people just hire me. — Gus Van Sant

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

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

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

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

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

Free time keeps me going. — Gus Van Sant

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

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

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

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

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

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