Gus Van Sant Quotes

I just have to be myself. I'm not perfect, and I'm going to make mistakes; I might say the wrong thing. I have to be responsible to my community, and I feel like I am, but then I have to not be so hard on myself.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

I'm my worst critic, and I like the fact that I can listen to myself now and make fun of myself, listen, make changes - 'Oh, man, that's messed up. Okay, I need to work on that; I need to work on this.'

We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.

Maybe to my own detriment, but I watched all of 'Fargo' probably more than once. And I tend to be a little critical of myself. But I can also let things go. So I can think, 'Well, that moment didn't read as well as I thought it would,' but it doesn't keep me up at night.

Maybe sometimes I have been wrong with some movies. Anyway, I try to do my best.

I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.

I've done a lot of things in my life that I'm not proud of.

I get angry if I do things wrong, but that's what keeps me going. I want to do my best.

Everything I'm saying shouldn't be taken so serious. I'm playing, but at the same token, I'm acknowledging that I'm not always the perfect man; I'm not always doing the right things. That's who I am. I'm working to be better.

The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could've done that better.

I've actually apologized to some people I was a real jerk to, because I feel ashamed. I didn't need to be that hungry. There was something going on inside me when I was angry and feeling very threatened and not feeling good about myself.

We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.

I understand that I'm not perfect. I made mistakes and I had a hand in everything that's happened to me, good and bad.

Neither blame or praise yourself.

I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

I had my moments for sure but I wasn't confrontational. And sometimes you get on the court and you'd find yourself very confrontational. It was all a discovery.

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.

I have a pretty clear picture of the whole weight of my life, and there are things that I've done that are good, and I'm proud of them. There are things that I'm really not proud of, and that they, you have to look at me with a perspective, and I try really hard to do that, to keep from thinking I'm cool and ever so smart.

I tend to process emotional stuff very, very slowly.

I'm a grown woman. I can come up with plenty of things that I've done and said or didn't say or failed to do that remain with me as sources of embarrassment.