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Gus Van Sant
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 24
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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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Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking.
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When I grew up in the '60s, we were actually dominated by this, you know, sort of conforming '50s culture, even though we were like trying to express our own culture, like, the dominant culture was the thing that was forming us. And I think that that's true today.
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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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Yeah, I try to be really calm.
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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 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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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.
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A lot of times, you're not necessarily off the page because you haven't been able to take the time to prepare a character. It's very easy to find even great actors reading it more like a reading. Things aren't really coming alive yet, even though you know they will.
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You're following your track, the story, your only plan, your map for the audience, and all the other stuff is, like, the fun stuff: the costumes, the locations, the set-dressing and the actors. They can all be variable as you like if you stick - however roughly - to the path.
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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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I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.
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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've always been attracted to temporary families.
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The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.
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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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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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My department is to get actors to do stuff.
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I used to take photographs just to remember people.
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Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s.
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