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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.

Gus Van Sant

If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn’t have directors at all.
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Directors Executives Probably
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
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
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
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
I used to take photographs just to remember people.
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People Photograph Remember
Free time keeps me going.
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Free Time
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
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
Yeah, I try to be really calm.
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Calm Trying Yeah
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’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
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
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
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

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