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One of the things that is devastating is I realise I haven’t been living a different life than when I was, like, 12. I’m shocked at how reclusive I’ve been since then. I was unaware of it until recently.

Gus Van Sant

You’re following your track, the story, your only plan, your map for the audience, and all the other stuff is, like, the fun stuff: the costumes, the locations, the set-dressing and the actors. They can all be variable as you like if you stick – however roughly – to the path.
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Fun Stories Track
Everything’s changing so fast that it’s sometimes hard to keep up.
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Hard Something Sometimes
Yeah, I try to be really calm.
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Calm Trying Yeah
And Later I Thought, I Can’t Think How Anyone Can Become a Director Without Learning the Craft of Cinematography.
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Inspiring Movie Thinking
Sometimes getting upset with yourself is necessary when you face the truth.
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Faces Sometimes Upset
If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn’t have directors at all.
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Directors Executives Probably
I’m going in a really weird I-don’t-know-where direction, but I prefer anything [different] from how standardized filmmaking has become.
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Different Filmmaking Really Weird
Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don’t get to think, you only get to receive information.
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Cinema Information Thinking
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.
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Feelings People Real
You never look at the backside of a mirror because when you do, it’ll affect your future because you’re looking at yourself backwards. No, you’re looking at your inner self and you don’t recognize it because you’ve never seen it before.
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Looks Mirrors Self
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.
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Car Stories Unfolding
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.
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People Real Trying
No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.
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Addiction Construction Stress
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.
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Doubt Film Thinking
When I grew up in the ’60s, we were actually dominated by this, you know, sort of conforming ’50s culture, even though we were like trying to express our own culture, like, the dominant culture was the thing that was forming us. And I think that that’s true today.
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Culture Thinking Trying
Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you’re making your own records and selling them online.
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Records Selling Venture

One of the things that is devastating is I realise I haven’t been living a different life than when I was, like, 12. I’m shocked at how reclusive I’ve been since then. I was unaware of it until recently.

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One of the things that is devastating is I realise I haven’t been living a different life than when I was, like, 12. I’m shocked at how reclusive I’ve been since then. I was unaware of it until recently.

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