American - Director | July 24, 1952 -
If I'm diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside their circle of family because their family is so despondent.
Gus Van Sant
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There's always a risk if you don't do things the way you've done things before.
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You know, I don't think I had a concept of what I would be or do.
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I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.
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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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I hadn't made a big-budget film, and in Hollywood there's a sort of man and boys situation. You're a man, you make $80 million movies! As if it's harder to make an $80 million movie. Well, I guess businesswise it is because you have more executives to argue with.
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The media has gone through lots of things that make it a less foreign thing to have your lead character be gay.
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Usually people just hire me.
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I mean, I think I'm pretty sentimental.
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I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film.
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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.
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When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult.
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