Gus Van Sant

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#gay #high #junior #junior high #man

My department is to get actors to do stuff. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#get #stuff

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

#like #making #music #music industry #now

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

— Gus Van Sant

#drop #helping #people #sometimes #who

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

#area #dynamic #film #gangster #gone

The biopic also wasn't a form that I necessarily believed in, because you can never really get it right, you know? It's also a form that's very popular - the straight-ahead biopic. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#because #believed #form #get #i

The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox for the advertising. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#area #comedies #comedy #dark #dramas

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

#foreign #gay #gone #lead #lead character

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

#feeling #films #good #good feeling #kind

There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#characters #circle #common #families #family