"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."

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Source : Interview with Briony Hanson, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2009.

Gus Van Sant

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes

“My parents are highly evolved worriers. ... If worrying were an Olympic sport, my parents' faces would have graced the Wheaties box a long time ago.”
“When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.”
“I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries.”

Source : "Interview with Director Richard Donner". Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. May 1, 2001.
“O SON OF MAN! For everything there is a sign. The sign of love is fortitude under My decree and patience under My trials.”
“I like pulling on a baggy bee suit, forgetting myself and getting as close to the bees' lives as they will let me, remembering in the process that there is more to life than the merely human.”
“Just jump in with both feet and live your life, no matter what.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 9, 2013
“We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature.”
“To drink away sorrow.”

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