#you

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

— Gus Van Sant

#become #cancer #circle #connections #diagnosed

If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#car #gas #getting #having #like

If you put up posters around town for high-school kids, high-school kids will come. If you're casting politicians, you can't put up posters and have politicians come down. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#casting #come #down #high-school #kids

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#form #get #information #modern-day #only

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

The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you have to know about the artist before you can even look at the painting, because there is a conceptual idea going on. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#actually #after #art #artist #because

There is a way that a younger person can accept the inevitable problem that they're going to die, whereas somebody a little bit older might be overcome. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#bit #die #going #inevitable #little

When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#become #freeze #get #start #up

The media has gone through lots of things that make it a less foreign thing to have your lead character be gay. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#foreign #gay #gone #lead #lead character

The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules of suspense, you are supposed to know that there is a bomb on the bus that might blow up, and then it becomes very tense - but if you don't know that there's a bomb and it just blows up, then it's just a surprise. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#blow #blows #bomb #bus #hitchcock