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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. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#being #ceremonial #earlier #gay #gay marriage

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

#been #ever #except #experimental #films

I hadn't made a big-budget film, and in Hollywood there's a sort of man and boys situation. You're a man, you make $80 million movies! As if it's harder to make an $80 million movie. Well, I guess businesswise it is because you have more executives to argue with. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#because #budget film #executives #film #guess

I mean, I think I'm pretty sentimental. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#i think #mean #pretty #sentimental #think

I think that for the actors, the last thing that they want is a director that's not watching, a director that goes 'Okay, it sounded good to me,' and they were doing something else or preoccupied with something else because they were worried about the light changing. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#because #changing #director #doing #else

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

#film #films #i #i think #least

I think that what I'm attracted to is people who are wild. But the self-destructive side comes out of the wild side. The wildness is very different from me. That's why I think I like it. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#comes #different #i #i think #like

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

#dramatic #early #experimental #extension #films

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. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#come #experimental #filmmaking #good #how

I'm a junkie. I like drugs, I like the whole lifestyle, but it just didn't pay off. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#junkie #just #lifestyle #like #off