#ill

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

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

My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school. So I was always moving, I'm still always moving. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#chicago #colorado #connecticut #couple #family

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

#directing #film #forming #i #into

Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#bad habits #break #excuses #habits #like

Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#drop #everybody #illusions #later #luggage

The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#best #best part #call #emotion #hearts

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible. ↗

— George Santayana

#humanly #must #once #past #possible

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. ↗

— George Santayana

#been #excited #fugitive #gladly #happiness

Wisdom comes by disillusionment. ↗

— George Santayana

#disillusionment #wisdom