I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before. Gus Van Sant draw Change image and share on social
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 adventureareadynamic Change image and share on social
The reason I know about 'Tomb Raider' is from when I was researching 'Elephant.' It was 1999, and I was trying to research the Columbine-massacre kids, and they had played video games, and I, at the time, had never really seen one. It was a world I didn't know. Gus Van Sant columbineelephantgame share on social
If I'm diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside their circle of family because their family is so despondent. Gus Van Sant cancercircleconnection Change image and share on social
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. Gus Van Sant directfilmform share on social
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 chicagocoloradoconnecticut share on social
In rare cases, I've had music before I shot the movie. I think that for 'Good Will Hunting' I had an Elliot Smith record or a couple of them and I just somehow felt like the sound had something to it that reminded me of the story. So in that case there was music beforehand. Gus Van Sant casecoupleelliot share on social
I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything. Gus Van Sant animalarrangedocumentary Change image and share on social
The biopic also wasn't a form that I necessarily believed in, because you can never really get it right, you know? It's also a form that's very popular - the straight-ahead biopic. Gus Van Sant aheadbelievebiopic Change image and share on social
Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s. Gus Van Sant 80sdocumentarysort Change image and share on social