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Gus Van Sant Biography

Gus Green Van Sant, Jr. (born July 24, 1952) is an American film director, screenwriter, painter, photographer, musician and author who has earned acclaim as both an independent and more mainstream filmmaker. His films typically deal with themes of marginalized subcultures, in particular homosexuality; as such, Van Sant is considered one of the most prominent auteurs of the New Queer Cinema movement.

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And Later I Thought, I Can't Think How Anyone Can Become a Director Without Learning the Craft of Cinematography.

Craft, Director, Inspiring, Movie, Thinking, Thought

In rare cases, I've had music before I shot the movie. I think that for 'Good Will Hunting' I had an Elliot Smith record or a couple of them and I just somehow felt like the sound had something to it that reminded me of the story. So in that case there was music beforehand.

Couple, Hunting, Rare, Thinking

I find it interesting, the different rules that apply to journalism and drama, even though journalism has become more and more about entertainment, and entertainment has become more and more about journalism.

Apply, Different, Drama, Entertainment, Interesting, Though

Silent is about needing to make a scene shorter by having physical things to cut to. That way, you can manipulate a character to the other side of the room. But, if they say the wrong thing, it might locate that action in a particular part of the scene. It's a mechanical need.

Character, Cutting, Physical, Sides, Way, Wrong

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.

Art, Gay, Junior, Man, Teacher, Tell

Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.

Making, Music, Records, Right, Selling, Venture

I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it.

Movie, Hunting, Actors, Filmmaking, Experimental, Good

I used to take photographs just to remember people.

People, Remember, Photograph, Take, Used

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.

Art, Ideas, Community, Say, Painting, Becomes

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me.

Art, Gay, Junior, Man, Teacher

It's easy to keep score at a football game because it's just how many times you get the ball over the goal. But, when you ask an audience to tell us how many times the invisible ball got over the invisible goal, and they go, "Well, it was 46," they're just making it up. So, if you're listening to that, as though you're actually listening to the score of a football game, you're misleading yourself.

Football, Games, Goal, Audience, Invisible

I'm not being analytical. I just create everything intuitively. If you're too analytical, what you're doing probably ends up being too specific.

Ends, Ifs, Analytical, Specific, Probably

Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me. . . as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay.

Gay, Job, Jobs, Religious, Side

No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.

Addiction, Construction, Overtime, Stiff, Straining, Stress

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

Animal, Different, Drama, Everything, Ideas

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.

Character, Happen, High School, School, Silas, Stop

I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film.

Thinking, Quality, Sentimental, Film, Think, Films

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.

Culture, Dominated, Thinking, Today, True, Trying

I've told people who have just started to make a film that the one thing you might experience is this feeling that everybody is conspiring against you, because you're not necessarily able to tell what's real and what's not.

Experience, Feeling, Feelings, Film, People, Real

Joanna Priestley is one of the most interesting and adept personal animators and filmmakers. I have enjoyed her work for years and been amazed at how she gets into her own thoughts onto the screen in a very elegant and focused way. You have to see this.

Years, Interesting, Way, Personal, Focused

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