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Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few.


Margaret Elizabeth Sangster


#coronation #creative #creative genius #divinely #few

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


#because #been #dramatic #early #experimental

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 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 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

My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school.


Gus Van Sant


#colorado #connecticut #couple #family #five

My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school. So I was always moving, I'm still always moving.


Gus Van Sant


#chicago #colorado #connecticut #couple #family

The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.


Gus Van Sant


#area #dynamic #film #gangster #gone

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.


Gus Van Sant


#conforming #culture #dominant #dominated #even