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Gus Van Sant Quote: “Casting the locals is my primary concern because all the other things you assume will be manageable.”

51. “Casting the locals is my primary concern because all the other things you assume will be manageable.”

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Gus Van Sant Quote: “There are all kinds of ways that people present their films, but that’s kind of a good feeling, if you can make it seem like the characters are really there.”

52. “There are all kinds of ways that people present their films, but that’s kind of a good feeling, if you can make it seem like the characters are really there.”

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Gus Van Sant Quote: “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.”

53. “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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Gus Van Sant Quote: “I find it interesting, the different rules that apply to journalism and drama, even though journalism has become more and more about entertainment, and entertainment has become more and more about journalism.”

54. “I find it interesting, the different rules that apply to journalism and drama, even though journalism has become more and more about entertainment, and entertainment has become more and more about journalism.”

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Gus Van Sant Quote: “When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult.”

55. “When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult.”

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Gus Van Sant Quote: “Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you’re making your own records and selling them online.”

56. “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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Gus Van Sant Quote: “My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the ‘Village Voice’ and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.”

57. “My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the ‘Village Voice’ and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.”

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Gus Van Sant Quote: “One of the things that is devastating is I realise I haven’t been living a different life than when I was, like, 12. I’m shocked at how reclusive I’ve been since then. I was unaware of it until recently.”

58. “One of the things that is devastating is I realise I haven’t been living a different life than when I was, like, 12. I’m shocked at how reclusive I’ve been since then. I was unaware of it until recently.”

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Gus Van Sant Quote: “The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there’s no ‘dark comedy’ inbox for the advertising.”

59. “The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there’s no ‘dark comedy’ inbox for the advertising.”

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Gus Van Sant Quote: “I don’t think American independent films have ever really been particularly experimental, except for the original guys from the ’60s who were huge influences, like Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, and Stan van der Beek. They were the true independents.”

60. “I don’t think American independent films have ever really been particularly experimental, except for the original guys from the ’60s who were huge influences, like Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, and Stan van der Beek. They were the true independents.”

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Gus Van Sant Quote: “I had wanted to do a comedy.”

61. “I had wanted to do a comedy.”

— Gus Van Sant

Gus Van Sant Quote: “My department is to get actors to do stuff.”

62. “My department is to get actors to do stuff.”

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Gus Van Sant Quote: “If a movie isn’t released, it’s one thing, but if you know it will be, it’s nice to have closure and see it come out.”

63. “If a movie isn’t released, it’s one thing, but if you know it will be, it’s nice to have closure and see it come out.”

— Gus Van Sant

Gus Van Sant Quote: “Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the ’80s.”

64. “Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the ’80s.”

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Gus Van Sant Quote: “I’m usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story.”

65. “I’m usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story.”

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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.”

66. “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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Gus Van Sant Quote: “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.”

67. “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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Gus Van Sant Quote: “If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn’t have directors at all.”

68. “If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn’t have directors at all.”

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Gus Van Sant Quote: “Yeah, Kubrick’s a big influence. In something like ‘A Clockwork Orange,’ he is trying to use the practical light – I mean, at least he says that in his interviews, like they’re not using traditionally Hollywood lights. In ‘Elephant’ we basically used no lights; we never really adjusted.”

69. “Yeah, Kubrick’s a big influence. In something like ‘A Clockwork Orange,’ he is trying to use the practical light – I mean, at least he says that in his interviews, like they’re not using traditionally Hollywood lights. In ‘Elephant’ we basically used no lights; we never really adjusted.”

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Gus Van Sant Quote: “I’ve always been attracted to temporary families.”

70. “I’ve always been attracted to temporary families.”

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Gus Van Sant Quote: “I try to get to know the actors as much as I can. I feel like I’m friends with them for starters and for a week or two, we rehearse when they’re getting the costumes together.”

71. “I try to get to know the actors as much as I can. I feel like I’m friends with them for starters and for a week or two, we rehearse when they’re getting the costumes together.”

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Gus Van Sant Quote: “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.”

72. “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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Gus Van Sant Quote: “Usually when I read something, first of all I’m looking for the story and then when I reread it, I’m sort of checking every part of it to see if every scene is necessary.”

73. “Usually when I read something, first of all I’m looking for the story and then when I reread it, I’m sort of checking every part of it to see if every scene is necessary.”

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Gus Van Sant Quote: “When I was 14, I felt very rundown; I had a home to go to, but I felt like I was 60 or something, older than I feel now. And I don’t know if it’s something that happens at 14, or whether it was adolescence or whether I was gay, or closeted gay, or whatever it was, I felt that.”

74. “When I was 14, I felt very rundown; I had a home to go to, but I felt like I was 60 or something, older than I feel now. And I don’t know if it’s something that happens at 14, or whether it was adolescence or whether I was gay, or closeted gay, or whatever it was, I felt that.”

— Gus Van Sant

Gus Van Sant Quote: “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.”

75. “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.”

— Gus Van Sant

Gus Van Sant Quote: “I used to take photographs just to remember people.”

76. “I used to take photographs just to remember people.”

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Gus Van Sant Quote: “My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school.”

77. “My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school.”

— Gus Van Sant

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