#heir

If I'm diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside their circle of family because their family is so despondent. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#become #cancer #circle #connections #diagnosed

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone. ↗

— William Westmoreland

#broaden #brothers #did #johnson #leave

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

Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family. I've always been attracted to temporary families. They tend to be lost characters. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#attracted #became #because #been #brothers

Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#became #because #brothers #down #family

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

— Gus Van Sant

#become #cancer #circle #connections #diagnosed

There's a lot of films that have relatively rigid road maps because they have a script and others that are less rigid because they have less of a script, like 'Elephant.' The road map becomes more interpretive, maybe, than one with a detailed script. Editing-wise, they all have their problems. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#becomes #detailed #elephant #films #interpretive

The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#being #dreaming #guitar #hendrix #hero

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different. ↗

— George Santayana

#agree #always #conclusions #different #friends

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them. ↗

— George Santayana

#enslave #free #instruments #seldom #their