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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.

Gus Van Sant

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Gus Van Sant
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 24
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Gus Greene Van Sant Junior
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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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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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If Im diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside their circle of family because their family is so despondent.
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I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.
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I mean, I think I'm pretty sentimental.
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I knew about Heatmiser, and I saw them one time at Pine Street [later changed to La Luna], which was the center of a lot of alternative bands during the 80s. But I didn't really know too much about their music.
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Everything's changing so fast that it's sometimes hard to keep up.
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I've always been attracted to temporary families.
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I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.
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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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I'm going in a really weird I-don't-know-where direction, but I prefer anything [different] from how standardized filmmaking has become.
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I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film.
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