With ‘Good Will Hunting,’ Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn’t expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited experience, you can really blow test screenings by conducting them in the wrong way. Gus Van Sant Read Quote
Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you’re making your own records and selling them online. Gus Van Sant Read Quote
I’ve told people who have just started to make a film that the one thing you might experience is this feeling that everybody is conspiring against you, because you’re not necessarily able to tell what’s real and what’s not. Gus Van Sant Read Quote
My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school. Gus Van Sant Read Quote
In rare cases, I’ve had music before I shot the movie. I think that for ‘Good Will Hunting’ I had an Elliot Smith record or a couple of them and I just somehow felt like the sound had something to it that reminded me of the story. So in that case there was music beforehand. Gus Van Sant Read Quote
I’m thinking of remaking ‘Psycho’ again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it – we’re talking about doing a punk rocker setting. Gus Van Sant Read Quote
If you don’t have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it’s like getting in a car and not having any gas. Gus Van Sant Read Quote
I find it interesting, the different rules that apply to journalism and drama, even though journalism has become more and more about entertainment, and entertainment has become more and more about journalism. Gus Van Sant Read Quote
I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you’re arranging everything. Gus Van Sant Read Quote
