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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.

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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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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If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all.
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The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox for the advertising.
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Usually when I read something, first of all I'm looking for the story and then when I reread it, I'm sort of checking every part of it to see if every scene is necessary.
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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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My department is to get actors to do stuff.
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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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I used to take photographs just to remember people.
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When you're on a film and you're doubting something, it's usually because you don't think the audience is going to like it.
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Yeah, I try to be really calm.
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There's a lot of films that have relatively rigid road maps because they have a script and others that are less rigid because they have less of a script, like 'Elephant.' The road map becomes more interpretive, maybe, than one with a detailed script. Editing-wise, they all have their problems.
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I'm not being analytical. I just create everything intuitively. If you're too analytical, what you're doing probably ends up being too specific.
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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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No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.
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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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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 find it interesting, the different rules that apply to journalism and drama, even though journalism has become more and more about entertainment, and entertainment has become more and more about journalism.
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Apparently there’s this kind of songbird that thinks it dies every time the sun goes down. In the morning, when it wakes up, it’s totally shocked to still be alive—so it sings this really beautiful song.
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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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