“The biopic also wasn't a form that I necessarily believed in, because ...” — Gus Van Sant Quote

“The biopic also wasn't a form that I necessarily believed in, because you can never really get it right, you know? It's also a form that's very popular - the straight-ahead biopic.”

“I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.”

“Death Valley is really wide-open - it's bigger than Rhode Island - and it's less a part of California than an ungoverned territory, so there's lots of weird cops-and-robbers stuff going on.”

“Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.”

“Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly. Maybe I'm drawn to it as a story element.”

“Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s.”

“If the majority of people were right, we'd be living in paradise. But we are not living in paradise, we are living in hell. What does it mean? That means the majority of people are wrong. So I never believed what people told me.”

“After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.”

“I have always believed that cinema has no language and 'Dead End' has proved it so.”

“I've never believed in or understood romantic love. Love at first sight was always a complete joke to me.”

“Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.”

“I've stayed put in the neighborhood where I first got my start and will never forget the people that believed in me and gave me my first chance.”