Latest Gus Van Sant Quotes from Interviews

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• A lot of times, I relied on connections through my agency, just for financing and things like that. Even when I'm looking for a million and a half dollars to do a small film, there can always be hold-ups, because it's a large amount of money for some people, and it's a small amount of money for other people. In any case, it's significant enough to where you have to jump through a lot of hoops to get it to happen. Sometimes, the people who are helping you can drop the ball. And, of course, the reason agents want you to do bigger projects is that they make a bigger cut.

  Gus Van Sant

  Cutting, People, Helping

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I knew about Heatmiser, and I saw them one time at Pine Street [later changed to La Luna], which was the center of a lot of alternative bands during the 80s. But I didn't really know too much about their music.

  Gus Van Sant

  Alternatives, Band, Too Much

  "Keep the Things You Forgot: An Elliott Smith Oral History". Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. October 21, 2013.

• As I do with most films, I try and find some music that you could use throughout, not just a sampling of lots of different artists.

  Gus Van Sant

  Artist, Trying, Different

  "Keep the Things You Forgot: An Elliott Smith Oral History". Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. October 21, 2013.

• I was petrified because all my friends would be going to Washington, DC, to protest. I was sixteen, and I was like, "I don't think I'll be going with you guys," just because I was scared. Then you saw the news, and cops - not students in schools with guns - cops are killing sixteen year old protesters on the news. To me that was more horrifying, to have the authority figures actually killing people on the evening news, than to have another student firing a gun.

  Gus Van Sant

  School, Gun, Thinking

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

• I'm going in a really weird I-don't-know-where direction, but I prefer anything [different] from how standardized filmmaking has become.

  Gus Van Sant

  Different, Filmmaking, Really Weird

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

• When you're on a film and you're doubting something, it's usually because you don't think the audience is going to like it.

  Gus Van Sant

  Thinking, Doubt, Film

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

• 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

• Digital information, for every type of storage, is unfounded. If everything is on a hard drive and the hard drive freezes up, your whole photography collection could just go away. We can still look at printed photographs of our grandparents. We can physically hold them in our hands and look at it.

  Gus Van Sant

  Photography, Hands, Grandparent

  Source: collider.com

• It's easy to keep score at a football game because it's just how many times you get the ball over the goal. But, when you ask an audience to tell us how many times the invisible ball got over the invisible goal, and they go, "Well, it was 46," they're just making it up. So, if you're listening to that, as though you're actually listening to the score of a football game, you're misleading yourself.

  Gus Van Sant

  Football, Games, Goal

  Source: collider.com

• Casting the locals is my primary concern because all the other things you assume will be manageable.

  Gus Van Sant

  Casting, Assuming, Concern

  Source: screenrant.com

• I try to shoot the first rehearsal because people are more spontaneous. People in real life don't really know where they are going to be either positioning themselves or how they will be saying their words. When people goof during the first take, it usually looks realistic.

  Gus Van Sant

  Real, People, Trying

  Source: screenrant.com

• I try to get to know the actors as much as I can. I feel like I'm friends with them for starters and for a week or two, we rehearse when they're getting the costumes together.

  Gus Van Sant

  Two, Trying, Together

  Source: screenrant.com