Gus Van Sant

I hadn’t made a big-budget film, and in Hollywood there’s a sort of man…

If I’m diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and…

There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually…

My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived…

The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic…

I had never had a positive leading character – somebody that wasn’t an antihero, or who…

Because I didn’t have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street…

Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me… as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and…

With ‘Good Will Hunting,’ Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn’t expecting to laugh at…

Even when you’re making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess…

The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the…

I’ve told people who have just started to make a film that the one thing…

Because I didn’t have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street…

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor…

My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived…