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Gus Van Sant

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
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
Yeah, I try to be really calm.
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Calm Trying Yeah
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn’t have directors at all.
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Directors Executives Probably
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
I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.
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Dope Full Shameless
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
Casting the locals is my primary concern because all the other things you assume will be manageable.
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Assuming Casting Concern
No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.
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Addiction Construction Stress

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