Gus Van Sant Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.”

“Sometimes, the people who are helping you can drop the ball.”

“The media has gone through lots of things that make it a less foreign thing to have your lead character be gay.”

“Usually people just hire me.”

“Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s.”

“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.”

“Free time keeps me going. It's just something that's always been a part of my life. I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films.”

“I don't think American independent films have ever really been particularly experimental, except for the original guys from the '60s who were huge influences, like Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, and Stan van der Beek. They were the true independents.”

“I think that what I'm attracted to is people who are wild. But the self-destructive side comes out of the wild side. The wildness is very different from me. That's why I think I like it.”

“My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school.”