Author: Gus Van Sant

Family

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

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.

Family

Because I didn't have brothers I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family so I became one of them – but it was not my family. I've always been attracted to temporary families. They tend to be lost characters.

Gus Van Sant

Because I didn't have brothers I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family so I became one of them – but it was not my family. I've always been attracted to temporary families. They tend to be lost characters.

Experience

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.

Gus Van Sant

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

With 'Good Will Hunting' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited experience you can really blow test screenings by conducting them in the wrong way.

Gus Van Sant

With 'Good Will Hunting' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited experience you can really blow test screenings by conducting them in the wrong way.

Death

Even when you're making a movie about life death is a presence and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.

Gus Van Sant

Even when you're making a movie about life death is a presence and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.

Death

Death Valley is really wide-open – it's bigger than Rhode Island – and it's less a part of California than an ungoverned territory so there's lots of weird cops-and-robbers stuff going on.

Gus Van Sant

Death Valley is really wide-open – it's bigger than Rhode Island – and it's less a part of California than an ungoverned territory so there's lots of weird cops-and-robbers stuff going on.

Death

Even when you're making a movie about life death is a presence and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly. Maybe I'm drawn to it as a story element.

Gus Van Sant

Even when you're making a movie about life death is a presence and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly. Maybe I'm drawn to it as a story element.

Car

If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga it's like getting in a car and not having any gas.

Gus Van Sant

If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga it's like getting in a car and not having any gas.