#ay

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

A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!' ↗

— Carlos Santana

#guest #guitar #hear #lot #me

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

The more matches I play, the more confident I get. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#get #i #matches #more #play

I think that for the actors, the last thing that they want is a director that's not watching, a director that goes 'Okay, it sounded good to me,' and they were doing something else or preoccupied with something else because they were worried about the light changing. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#because #changing #director #doing #else

I'm a junkie. I like drugs, I like the whole lifestyle, but it just didn't pay off. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#junkie #just #lifestyle #like #off

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

— Gus Van Sant

#form #get #information #modern-day #only

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 art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#art #below #describe #gay #greenwich