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No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.
Gus Van Sant
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Gus Van Sant
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 24
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Louisville
Kentucky
Gus Greene Van Sant Junior
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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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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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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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Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s.
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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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Digital information, for every type of storage, is unfounded. If everything is on a hard drive and the hard drive freezes up, your whole photography collection could just go away. We can still look at printed photographs of our grandparents. We can physically hold them in our hands and look at it.
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I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.
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I've always been attracted to temporary families.
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There is a way that a younger person can accept the inevitable problem that they're going to die, whereas somebody a little bit older might be overcome.
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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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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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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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And Later I Thought, I Can't Think How Anyone Can Become a Director Without Learning the Craft of Cinematography.
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One of the things that is devastating is I realise I haven't been living a different life than when I was, like, 12. I'm shocked at how reclusive I've been since then. I was unaware of it until recently.
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I'm thinking of remaking 'Psycho' again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a punk rocker setting.
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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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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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If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all.
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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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I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.
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