Top 3 Gus Van Sant Quotes

American film director, producer, photographer and musician (born 1952)

Gus Green Van Sant Jr. (born July 24, 1952) is an American film director, screenwriter, painter, photographer, musician, and author. His films include Drugstore Cowboy, Good Will Hunting, My Own Private Idaho, Milk, Psycho, Finding Forrester among others.

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Birth Name: Gus Green Van Sant, Jr.

Alternative Names: Gus Greene Van Sant Junior • Gus Green Van Sant Jr,

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I grew up on the experimental cinema coming out of New York and San Francisco in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s.

For me it was a lot like using music. I used it when I felt that it was right, when I felt like it was time.

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.

Top 3 Gus Van Sant Quotes

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