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Gus Van Sant Quotes

Gus Van Sant quotes about film

American Director July 24, 1952

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The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic. Gus Van Sant
There are all kinds of ways that people present their films, but that's kind of a good feeling, if you can make it seem like the characters are really there. 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 you think it might want to be. So whether it's my writing or not, I still try to work with it in the same way. Gus Van Sant
I think over the course of 14 films, I'm returning to a place that I know to tell a story... the same way Spielberg returned to fantasy, Lucas returned to the 'Star Wars' saga, or John Ford returned to the western. Gus Van Sant
I've told people who have just started to make a film that the one thing you might experience is this feeling that everybody is conspiring against you, because you're not necessarily able to tell what's real and what's not. Gus Van Sant
I hadn't made a big-budget film, and in Hollywood there's a sort of man and boys situation. You're a man, you make $80 million movies! As if it's harder to make an $80 million movie. Well, I guess businesswise it is because you have more executives to argue with. Gus Van Sant
Gus Van Sant quote: "I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a..."
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
Gus Van Sant quote: "Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't...."
Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film. Gus Van Sant
There's a lot of films that have relatively rigid road maps because they have a script and others that are less rigid because they have less of a script, like 'Elephant.' The road map becomes more interpretive, maybe, than one with a detailed script. Editing-wise, they all have their problems. Gus Van Sant
I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films. Gus Van Sant

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