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" I did 'Mala Noche' as a way to do something that was outside of the system, because I was outside of the system, and I deliberately chose material that Hollywood wouldn't touch in a million years. "

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" When I was 14, I felt very rundown; I had a home to go to, but I felt like I was 60 or something, older than I feel now. And I don't know if it's something that happens at 14, or whether it was adolescence or whether I was gay, or closeted gay, or whatever it was, I felt that. "

Gus Van Sant

Adolescence

Gay

Home

" 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. "

" Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information. "

" If I'm diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside their circle of family because their family is so despondent. "

" If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all. "

Gus Van Sant

Executives

Directors

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

" Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family. "

" I've always been attracted to temporary families. "

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

" My department is to get actors to do stuff. "

" 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. "

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

" When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult. "

Gus Van Sant

Adult

You

" I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend. "

" 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. "

" I mean, I think I'm pretty sentimental. "

" Everything's changing so fast that it's sometimes hard to keep up. "

Gus Van Sant

Sometimes

Hard

" Usually people just hire me. "

" 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. "

" The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox for the advertising. "

" There's always a risk if you don't do things the way you've done things before. "

" 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. "

" 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 reason I know about 'Tomb Raider' is from when I was researching 'Elephant.' It was 1999, and I was trying to research the Columbine-massacre kids, and they had played video games, and I, at the time, had never really seen one. It was a world I didn't know. "

" 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. "

" Yeah, I try to be really calm. "

" Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film. "

" I find it interesting, the different rules that apply to journalism and drama, even though journalism has become more and more about entertainment, and entertainment has become more and more about journalism. "

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