"You're following your track, the story, your only plan, your map for the audience, and all the other stuff is, like, the fun stuff: the costumes, the locations, the set-dressing and the actors. They can all be variable as you like if you stick - however roughly - to the path."

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Source : "Gus van Sant: the last king of the underground". Interview with John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2011.

Gus Van Sant

#Fun Quotes #Track Quotes #Maps Quotes

“An Eagle Scout deserves a letter of congratulations, but not a proclamation, ... That's a normal process. It's not a heroic process.”
“I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is a call to God. But all I achieved was awkward shrieking. Not even the pure shriek of a reed in the rain.”
“It were better to be a soldier's widow than a coward's wife.”

Source : Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1911). “The writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”
“The universe is deterministic all right, just like Newton said, I mean it's trying to be, but the only thing going wrong is people fancying people who aren't supposed to be in that part of the plan.”
“The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.”
“To be honest, when I was writing these stories a million years ago, I never thought about movies at all one way or another. It would have seemed almost miraculous for these things to be movies someday. To me, they were just comic books that I hoped would sell so I could keep my job.”
“I am learning that a man can live profoundly without masses of things.”
“I am blind and limited. I would be a fool think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me. I must be true to my heart.”

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