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Gus Van Sant Quotes

In high school, I read 'Silas Marner' and I was very attracted to this character - he was very rundown and he'd just stop, and things would happen around him.

Gus Van Sant

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: July 24, 1952

Topics

Character School High School Stop

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

John F. Kennedy

Future Light Darkness Candle Safe

A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it.

Matthew Barney

Work Ego Way Up Stomach Just

The role of fiction is supposed to be divorced from the role of reality.

Tom Clancy

Reality Fiction Role Supposed

My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.

Robert Wise

Perseverance Patience Passion You

I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to.

Mike White

Trying Write Connect Would Stuff

We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.

Joycelyn Elders

Love Children Start Need Over Get

I guess I think of myself as an actor before I think of myself as a gay actor.

Jonathan Groff

Myself Think Gay Actor I Think

I would rather be on stage playing to 25 people with a band I love and the music I love than learning dance moves I don't want to do for 25,000 people.

Drake Bell

Love Learning Music Dance People

I really, really like 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of the few things that makes me laugh. It's almost too funny to get an award.

Denis Leary

Funny Me Laugh Award Down Things

The idea of dying and coming back is what makes the Halloween films work.

Donald Pleasence

Work Back Dying Coming Idea Makes

I love my body. I love representing people who aren't stick figures, because people aren't.

Lindsay Mendez

Love People Body Stick Because Who

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

Horatio Nelson

Desperate Affairs Measures Require