Gus Van Sant
Gus Van Sant
Gus Green Van Sant, Jr.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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth24 July 1952
CountryUnited States of America
adults freeze
When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult.
two trying together
I try to get to know the actors as much as I can. I feel like I'm friends with them for starters and for a week or two, we rehearse when they're getting the costumes together.
style want documentaries
Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s.
stuff actors department
My department is to get actors to do stuff.
teacher art gay
My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me.
movie nice actors
If a movie isn't released, it's one thing, but if you know it will be, it's nice to have closure and see it come out.
dope shameless
I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.
comedy wanted
I had wanted to do a comedy.
free-time
Free time keeps me going.
sometimes hard
Everything's changing so fast that it's sometimes hard to keep up.
drama interesting entertainment
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.
religious jobs gay
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.
war shopping yuppies
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.
upset faces sometimes
Sometimes getting upset with yourself is necessary when you face the truth.