American - Director | July 24, 1952 -
Free time keeps me going.
Gus Van Sant
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I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.
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Yeah, I try to be really calm.
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I'm thinking of remaking 'Psycho' again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a punk rocker setting.
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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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I did 'Mala Noche' as a way to do something that was outside of the system, because I was outside of the system, and I deliberately chose material that Hollywood wouldn't touch in a million years.
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Everything's changing so fast that it's sometimes hard to keep up.
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For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.
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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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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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Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking.
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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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