#ow

The reason I know about 'Tomb Raider' is from when I was researching 'Elephant.' It was 1999, and I was trying to research the Columbine-massacre kids, and they had played video games, and I, at the time, had never really seen one. It was a world I didn't know. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#elephant #games #had #i #kids

He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes in the heart of a woman. ↗

— Jacopo Sannazaro

#heart #his #hopes #net #places

I think over the course of 14 films, I'm returning to a place that I know to tell a story... the same way Spielberg returned to fantasy, Lucas returned to the 'Star Wars' saga, or John Ford returned to the western. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#fantasy #films #ford #i #i think

Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#like #making #music #music industry #now

The biopic also wasn't a form that I necessarily believed in, because you can never really get it right, you know? It's also a form that's very popular - the straight-ahead biopic. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#because #believed #form #get #i

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#heart #instrument #most #most powerful #open

Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality. ↗

— Cliff Fadiman

#immortality #leap #milk #toward

When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#baby #chicken #comes #flesh #flower

I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#african #blues #concept #every #false

I'm not executing my pitches. I'm not commanding my fastball, and I get behind in the count. When I try to throw strikes, I'm getting hurt. That's not the way I pitch. ↗

— Johan Santana

#commanding #count #executing #fastball #get