American - Director | July 24, 1952 -
My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me.
Gus Van Sant
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I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films.
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If you put up posters around town for high-school kids, high-school kids will come. If you're casting politicians, you can't put up posters and have politicians come down.
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Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family.
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I've always been attracted to temporary families.
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The biopic also wasn't a form that I necessarily believed in, because you can never really get it right, you know? It's also a form that's very popular - the straight-ahead biopic.
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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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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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Sometimes, the people who are helping you can drop the ball.
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If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all.
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I had never had a positive leading character - somebody that wasn't an antihero, or who wasn't more of a guy that you're supposed to be on the side of.
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I had wanted to do a comedy.
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