I’m usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story. Gus Van Sant Read Quote
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. Gus Van Sant Read Quote
The media has gone through lots of things that make it a less foreign thing to have your lead character be gay. Gus Van Sant Read Quote
I think that in some cases, I’ve made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film. Gus Van Sant Read Quote
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 Read Quote