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" 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. "

Gus Van Sant

Need

Family

Young

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Gus Van Sant

You

Politicians

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Gus Van Sant

Know

Good

" Usually, when I read something, I'm looking for the story first. And then, when I re-read it, I check every part of it to see whether every scene is necessary. You imagine yourself watching the movie, to see whether or not you're losing the through-line of the story. "

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" Yeah, Kubrick's a big influence. In something like 'A Clockwork Orange,' he is trying to use the practical light - I mean, at least he says that in his interviews, like they're not using traditionally Hollywood lights. In 'Elephant' we basically used no lights; we never really adjusted. "

" My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar. "

" 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. "

Gus Van Sant

Person

Die

" Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay. "

" I don't usually direct actors in the classic sense of that word. Instead, I try to remind the characters before the shoot what's going on in a very simple way. I then watch them, their inventions as actors, approving or not approving what they're doing. "

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

Gus Van Sant

Executives

Directors

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" 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. "

Gus Van Sant

Early

Free

" The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our 'me' generation, our yuppie culture, our SUVs, or, you know, shopping culture, our war culture. "

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

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" I had never had a positive leading character - somebody that wasn't an antihero, or who wasn't more of a guy that you're supposed to be on the side of. "

Gus Van Sant

Character

Positive

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

" The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic. "

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

Gus Van Sant

Adult

You

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