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Gus Van Sant Quotes
Gus Van Sant
American
Director
Born:
Jul 24
,
1952
Because
Good
Life
Me
Think
You
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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.
Gus Van Sant
Quality
Made
Think
Films
Some
Cases
Part
Least
Sentimental
Film
Yeah, I try to be really calm.
Gus Van Sant
Try
Calm
Yeah
Really
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.
Gus Van Sant
Try
Made
Films
Dramatic
Make
Sort
Because
Were
Experimental
Then
Painter
Originally
Extension
Early
Started
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.
Gus Van Sant
You
Never
Know
Also
Because
Very
Get
Form
Really
Popular
Believed
Right
Necessarily
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.
Gus Van Sant
Good
You
People
Feeling
Films
Ways
Characters
Kind
Kinds
Seem
Like
Make
Really
Good Feeling
Present
If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all.
Gus Van Sant
Directors
Executives
Were
Up
Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.
Gus Van Sant
You
Try
Own
Still
Shot
Your
Even
Film
Copy
Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s.
Gus Van Sant
Style
Everything
Since
Documentary
Well
Sort
Want
Ever
Started
I've always been interested in how to present something that relates to our reality - which is not really... I don't even know if documentary itself does as good a job. It has its own problems in trying to get at the reality of the situation.
Gus Van Sant
Good
Reality
Problems
Job
Own
Situation
Relates
Our
Something
Know
Documentary
Does
Always
How
Been
Itself
Get
Trying
Which
Interested
Really
Even
Present
The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our 'me' generation, our yuppie culture, our SUVs, or, you know, shopping culture, our war culture.
Gus Van Sant
War
Me
You
Generation
Culture
Shopping
Our
Student
Unseen
Know
Climbing
Controlled
Inform
Created
Aspects
Things
Sociological
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