Gus Van Sant Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• In high school, I read 'Silas Marner' and I was very attracted to this character - he was very rundown and he'd just stop, and things would happen around him.

  Gus Van Sant

  School, Character, High School

  Interview with Scott Tobias at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2009.

• 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. They tend to be lost characters.

  Gus Van Sant

  Brother, Character, Kids

• 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.

  Gus Van Sant

  Character, People, Feelings

  Interview with Armistead Maupin, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2008.

• A lot of times, you're not necessarily off the page because you haven't been able to take the time to prepare a character. It's very easy to find even great actors reading it more like a reading. Things aren't really coming alive yet, even though you know they will.

  Gus Van Sant

  Reading, Character, Actors

  Source: collider.com

• Silent is about needing to make a scene shorter by having physical things to cut to. That way, you can manipulate a character to the other side of the room. But, if they say the wrong thing, it might locate that action in a particular part of the scene. It's a mechanical need.

  Gus Van Sant

  Character, Cutting, Needs

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Family, Character, Circles

  "EXCLUSIVE: Gus Van Sant Talks Restless Blu-ray" by B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. January 25, 2012.

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