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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

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I think that what I'm attracted to is people who are wild. But the self-destructive side comes out of the wild side. The wildness is very different from me. That's why I think I like it. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

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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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I'm thinking of remaking 'Psycho' again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a punk rocker setting. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

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If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

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In rare cases, I've had music before I shot the movie. I think that for 'Good Will Hunting' I had an Elliot Smith record or a couple of them and I just somehow felt like the sound had something to it that reminded me of the story. So in that case there was music beforehand. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

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

— Gus Van Sant

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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

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My department is to get actors to do stuff. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

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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

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