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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.
Gus Van Sant
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Gus Van Sant
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 24
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