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Too many people in government seem to think they are above regular folks, and I said I would expect humility in the way each member of my team served- that they would recognize that the taxpayer is boss. ↗

— Mark Sanford

#boss #each #expect #folks #government

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure. ↗

— Frederick Sanger

#appeal #discovery #good #good sense #into

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

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

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#arranging #because #different #different animal #documentary

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'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#come #experimental #filmmaking #good #how

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it. ↗

— George Santayana

#good #make #much #nothing #sacrifices

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

#beforehand #case #cases #couple #felt