#real

Trying to ground everything in reality was the most important thing to me. ↗

— Rupert Sanders

#ground #important #important thing #me #most

Death Valley is really wide-open - it's bigger than Rhode Island - and it's less a part of California than an ungoverned territory, so there's lots of weird cops-and-robbers stuff going on. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#california #death #going #island #less

Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#filmmaking #great #hendrix #inspiration #jimi

Technology isn't the enemy, it is our ally, but only if we adopt a new model that puts people before profit. I realize that we seem far from that model, but I have seen it in action and it is a beautiful thing. So I'm not willing to give up yet. Hope is the last thing to die. ↗

— Justin Sane

#adopt #ally #beautiful #beautiful thing #before

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

I don't think American independent films have ever really been particularly experimental, except for the original guys from the '60s who were huge influences, like Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, and Stan van der Beek. They were the true independents. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#been #ever #except #experimental #films

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

#again #change #doing #i #idea

I've told people who have just started to make a film that the one thing you might experience is this feeling that everybody is conspiring against you, because you're not necessarily able to tell what's real and what's not. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#against #because #conspiring #everybody #experience

One of the things that is devastating is I realise I haven't been living a different life than when I was, like, 12. I'm shocked at how reclusive I've been since then. I was unaware of it until recently. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#devastating #different #haven #how #i

Yeah, Kubrick's a big influence. In something like 'A Clockwork Orange,' he is trying to use the practical light - I mean, at least he says that in his interviews, like they're not using traditionally Hollywood lights. In 'Elephant' we basically used no lights; we never really adjusted. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#basically #big #big influence #clockwork #elephant