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And Later I Thought, I Can’t Think How Anyone Can Become a Director Without Learning the Craft of Cinematography.

Gus Van Sant

I’ve always been interested in how to present something that relates to our reality – which is not really… I don’t even know if documentary itself does as good a job. It has its own problems in trying to get at the reality of the situation.
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Jobs Reality Trying
I’d come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making ‘Good Will Hunting’ was experimental because I didn’t know how to do it.
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Actors Hunting Movie
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 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
Sometimes getting upset with yourself is necessary when you face the truth.
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Faces Sometimes Upset
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
No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.
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Addiction Construction Stress
Silent is about needing to make a scene shorter by having physical things to cut to. That way, you can manipulate a character to the other side of the room. But, if they say the wrong thing, it might locate that action in a particular part of the scene. It’s a mechanical need.
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Character Cutting Needs
I have this new theory about films. It’s almost like astrology, where if we started on a Tuesday the film will be different than if we started on a Wednesday. Not because of the planets. It’s that sometimes you start with the wrong balance and the whole thing gets messed up.
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Astrology Balance Tuesday
The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we’ve all gone through that period. It’s not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.
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Adventure Space Teenage
And Later I Thought, I Can’t Think How Anyone Can Become a Director Without Learning the Craft of Cinematography.
GUS VAN SANT

Inspiring Movie Thinking
Joanna Priestley is one of the most interesting and adept personal animators and filmmakers. I have enjoyed her work for years and been amazed at how she gets into her own thoughts onto the screen in a very elegant and focused way. You have to see this.
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Amazed Interesting Way Years
I used to take photographs just to remember people.
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People Photograph Remember
If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn’t have directors at all.
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Directors Executives Probably
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

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