Gus Van Sant Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“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.”

“I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.”

“Yeah, I try to be really calm.”

“You know, I don't think I had a concept of what I would be or do.”

“Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly. Maybe I'm drawn to it as a story element.”

“I hadn't made a big-budget film, and in Hollywood there's a sort of man and boys situation. You're a man, you make $80 million movies! As if it's harder to make an $80 million movie. Well, I guess businesswise it is because you have more executives to argue with.”

“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.”

“There are all kinds of ways that people present their films, but that's kind of a good feeling, if you can make it seem like the characters are really there.”

“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.”

“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.”