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Usually, when I read somethin...

Usually, when I read something, I'm looking for the story first. And then, when I re-read it, I check every part of it to see whether every scene is necessary. You imagine yourself watching the movie, to see whether or not you're losing the through-line of the story.

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The artist himself is actuall...

The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you have to know about the artist before you can even look at the painting, because there is a conceptual idea going on.

Gus Van Sant 106 quotes

Free time keeps me going. It'...

Free time keeps me going. It's just something that's always been a part of my life. 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 106 quotes

I mean, I think I'm pretty se...

I mean, I think I'm pretty sentimental.

Gus Van Sant 106 quotes

In high school, I read 'Silas...

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 106 quotes

If I'm diagnosed with cancer ...

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 106 quotes

When you get to be 23, 24 or ...

When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult.

Gus Van Sant 106 quotes

You never look at the backsid...

You never look at the backside of a mirror because when you do, it'll affect your future because you're looking at yourself backwards. No, you're looking at your inner self and you don't recognize it because you've never seen it before.

Gus Van Sant 106 quotes

Everything's changing so fast...

Everything's changing so fast that it's sometimes hard to keep up.

Gus Van Sant 106 quotes

The biopic also wasn't a form...

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 106 quotes

Usually when I read something...

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.

Gus Van Sant 106 quotes

I was originally a painter, a...

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 106 quotes

Because I didn't have brother...

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.

Gus Van Sant 106 quotes

If you put up posters around ...

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.

Gus Van Sant 106 quotes

I've always been interested i...

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 106 quotes

The things that inform studen...

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 106 quotes

Even if you try to copy a fil...

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

Gus Van Sant 106 quotes

Even when you're making a mov...

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.

Gus Van Sant 106 quotes

When I grew up in the '60s, w...

When I grew up in the '60s, we were actually dominated by this, you know, sort of conforming '50s culture, even though we were like trying to express our own culture, like, the dominant culture was the thing that was forming us. And I think that that's true today.

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I don't think American indepe...

I don't think American independent films have ever really been particularly experimental, except for the original guys from the '60s who were huge influences, like Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, and Stan van der Beek. They were the true independents.

Gus Van Sant 106 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....