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Gus Van Sant

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.
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Climbing Shopping War
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’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
I used to take photographs just to remember people.
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People Photograph Remember
A person’s sexuality is so much more than one word “gay.” No one refers to anyone as just “hetero” because that doesn’t say anything. Sexual identity is broader than a label.
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Anything Gay Identity Say
Apparently there’s this kind of songbird that thinks it dies every time the sun goes down. In the morning, when it wakes up, it’s totally shocked to still be alive—so it sings this really beautiful song.
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Beautiful Morning Song
Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me… as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it’s one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you’re gay.
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Gay Jobs Religious Retain
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
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
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
I think over the course of 14 films, I’m returning to a place that I know to tell a story… the same way Spielberg returned to fantasy, Lucas returned to the ‘Star Wars’ saga, or John Ford returned to the western.
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Stars Thinking War
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
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.
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Actor Character Reading
Even when you’re making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it’s part of my dramatic viewpoint. I’m not sure why exactly.
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Actors Movie Viewpoints
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.
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Couple Hunting Thinking

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