Author: Gus Van Sant

Quotes

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.

- Gus Van Sant

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

- Gus Van Sant

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.

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.

- Gus Van Sant

Free time keeps me going.

Free time keeps me going.

- Gus Van Sant

Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking.

Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking.

- Gus Van Sant

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

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

- Gus Van Sant

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.

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.

- Gus Van Sant

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.

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.

- Gus Van Sant

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