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I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.

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Gus Van Sant
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 24
Actor
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Louisville
Kentucky
Gus Greene Van Sant Junior
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If a movie isn't released, it's one thing, but if you know it will be, it's nice to have closure and see it come out.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.
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I have this new theory about films. It's almost like astrology, where if we started on a Tuesday the film will be different than if we started on a Wednesday. Not because of the planets. It's that sometimes you start with the wrong balance and the whole thing gets messed up.
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Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.
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I used to take photographs just to remember people.
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Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.
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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.
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For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.
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I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.
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I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story.
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I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.
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Yeah, I try to be really calm.
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Everything's changing so fast that it's sometimes hard to keep up.
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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.
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I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it.
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Narcotics have been systematically scapegoated and demonized. The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is ananathema to these idiots. I predict that in the near future, right wingers will use drug hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus.
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When I was 14, I felt very rundown I had a home to go to, but I felt like I was 60 or something, older than I feel now. And I don't know if it's something that happens at 14, or whether it was adolescence or whether I was gay, or closeted gay, or whatever it was, I felt that.
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