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Gus Van Sant Quotes

born 1952 United States

Gus Green Van Sant Jr. (born July 24, 1952) is an American film director, screenwriter, painter, photographer, musician, and author. His films include Drugstore Cowboy, Good Will Hunting, My Own Private Idaho, Milk, Psycho, Finding Forrester among others.

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I grew up on the experimental cinema coming out of New York and San Francisco in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s.

For me it was a lot like using music. I used it when I felt that it was right, when I felt like it was time.

Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film that you think it might want to be. So whether it's my writing or not, I still try to work with it in the same way.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gus Van Sant (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.