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In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding. ↗

— Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

#fatal #human #human affairs #little #misunderstanding

I don't usually direct actors in the classic sense of that word. Instead, I try to remind the characters before the shoot what's going on in a very simple way. I then watch them, their inventions as actors, approving or not approving what they're doing. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#before #characters #classic #direct #doing

Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few. ↗

— Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

#coronation #creative #creative genius #divinely #few

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. ↗

— Thomas Sankara

#cannot #carry #certain #change #fundamental

With 'Good Will Hunting,' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited experience, you can really blow test screenings by conducting them in the wrong way. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#blow #certain #conducting #expecting #experience

Free time keeps me going. It's just something that's always been a part of my life. 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

#because #been #dramatic #early #experimental

Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#being #ceremonial #earlier #gay #gay marriage

I don't think American independent films have ever really been particularly experimental, except for the original guys from the '60s who were huge influences, like Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, and Stan van der Beek. They were the true independents. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#been #ever #except #experimental #films

I find it interesting, the different rules that apply to journalism and drama, even though journalism has become more and more about entertainment, and entertainment has become more and more about journalism. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#apply #become #different #drama #entertainment

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

#because #budget film #executives #film #guess