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  • Gus Van Sant Quote - 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.
  • Gus Van Sant Quote - 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.
  • Gus Van Sant Quote - 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.
  • Gus Van Sant Quote - 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.
  • Gus Van Sant Quote - 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.
  • Gus Van Sant Quote - 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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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.

Gus Van Sant

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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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