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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.

Gus Van Sant

It’s hard to speculate as a human about the afterlife because you’re not in it. And it’s probably as wild and wacky as you could imagine. The idea that people have figured it out, I’m not sure if I can fathom that.
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Afterlife Idea Ideas People
When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult.
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Adult Adults Freeze
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.
GUS VAN SANT

Doubt Film 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
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
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
Once you’re directing, you’re kind of in a certain mode, where you’re taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film that you think it might want to be. So whether it’s my writing or not, I still try to work with it in the same way.
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Thinking Trying Writing
Everything’s changing so fast that it’s sometimes hard to keep up.
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Hard Something Sometimes
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
I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.
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Dope Full Shameless
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
If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn’t have directors at all.
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Directors Executives Probably
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
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
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
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.
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Blow Experience Hunting Laughing Limited

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