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Gus Van Sant

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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. Maybe I'm drawn to it as a story element.


— Gus Van Sant


#death #dramatic #drawn #element #even

Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family.


— Gus Van Sant


#became #because #brothers #down #family

Death Valley is really wide-open - it's bigger than Rhode Island - and it's less a part of California than an ungoverned territory, so there's lots of weird cops-and-robbers stuff going on.


— Gus Van Sant


#california #death #going #island #less

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


#death #dramatic #even #exactly #guess

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


— Gus Van Sant


#everything #fast #hard #keep #sometimes

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


— Gus Van Sant


#boredom #brings #life #straight #too

Free time keeps me going.


— Gus Van Sant


#free time #going #keeps #me #time

I did 'Mala Noche' as a way to do something that was outside of the system, because I was outside of the system, and I deliberately chose material that Hollywood wouldn't touch in a million years.


— Gus Van Sant


#chose #deliberately #did #hollywood #i

I had never had a positive leading character - somebody that wasn't an antihero, or who wasn't more of a guy that you're supposed to be on the side of.


— Gus Van Sant


#guy #had #i #leading #more

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


— Gus Van Sant


#even #film #own #shot #still






About Gus Van Sant

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Did you know about Gus Van Sant?

However those same reviewers were less impressed with the script's schematic Scent of a Woman-meets-Good Will Hunting template. In addition to directing he also devoted considerable energy to releasing two albums and publishing a novel Pink which was a thinly veiled exploration of his grief over River Phoenix's 1993 death. Mala Noche was made two years after Van Sant went to New York to work in an advertising agency.

His filmography as writer and director includes a 1994 adaptation of Tom Robbins' 1976 novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues which features a diverse cast (Keanu Reeves Roseanne Barr Uma Thurman and k. (born July 24 1952) is an American film director screenwriter painter photographer musician and author. He lives in Portland Oregon.

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