Gus Van Sant Quotes

I don't make projects; I make films.

When you're trying to make a film, you're trying to find a way to love your subject, and you want your audience to love your subject.

When you are scripting, the scene, the dialogues, everything comes before you, taking final shape. That is truly the most creative aspect of filmmaking and that is what I enjoy the most.

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

You want to enjoy making a movie - it's a wonderful, collaborative thing.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

I make a movie because it's something that inspires me.

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn't such a leap.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

The first movies were made by technicians building their own cameras. Movies became an art when technicians worked on the technique and artists took care of the content.

'Lost in Translation' was a year of my life, if not more, and then 'Marie Antoinette' was about three years of my life.

I love filmmaking as a process and acting is one element that is dear to me.

People don't know what filmmaking is even after they have made ten films.

In order to make a film, you have to operate on many different levels, making all these different forms of expression converse, and so I just followed that intuition.

I think coming off of "Blame", I've been talking a lot about directing. It's something that I really love and connect with. I truly consider it what I was born to do. That kind of loops in with filmmaking on the whole, because when you create something, you're also wearing a lot more hats than just director. At the same time, I also think acting is something that's very powerful in my life.

Filmmaking is a creative process so there is a lot of collaboration that happens on set between an actor and director, but at the end of the day, we're there to actualize the director's vision and things happen organically.

Film is an itch I have yet to scratch.

To make a film is easy; to make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle.

In film, you're painting a canvas. I got really excited about that.

I haven't thought about getting into production. I'm interested in the creative aspect of storytelling.