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Sometimes getting upset with yourself is necessary when you face the truth.

Gus Van Sant

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.
GUS VAN SANT

Actor Character Reading
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
Free time keeps me going.
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Free Time
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
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
Everything’s changing so fast that it’s sometimes hard to keep up.
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Hard Something Sometimes
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
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
Yeah, I try to be really calm.
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Calm Trying Yeah
I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.
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Dope Full Shameless
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
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
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
If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn’t have directors at all.
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Directors Executives Probably
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

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