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. Gus Van Sant Read Quote
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. Gus Van Sant Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Gus Van Sant Read Quote
If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn’t have directors at all. Gus Van Sant Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can’t. It’s still your own film. Gus Van Sant Read Quote