“I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental qu...” — Gus Van Sant Quote

“I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film.”

“I don't think American independent films have ever really been particularly experimental, except for the original guys from the '60s who were huge influences, like Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, and Stan van der Beek. They were the true independents.”

“Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.”

“When I grew up in the '60s, we were actually dominated by this, you know, sort of conforming '50s culture, even though we were like trying to express our own culture, like, the dominant culture was the thing that was forming us. And I think that that's true today.”

“There are all kinds of ways that people present their films, but that's kind of a good feeling, if you can make it seem like the characters are really there.”

“Sometimes, the people who are helping you can drop the ball.”

“I love prosecuting cases, and I love doing investigations, particularly homicide investigations and the like, and that's why I became a prosecutor.”

“I believe, and I may be wrong, the system sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Prison is supposed to rehabilitate, but they don't do that in a lot of cases.”

“Even if we were able to agree on an ideal set of immigration laws, enforcing such laws in the face of hundreds of thousands of cases is impossible in practice.”

“If a mother is sitting in a chair at the office, someone needs to be at home with her child. In some cases, that is a father. Much of the time, the material manifestation of the conflict is a nanny.”

“While most of us know that we feel better after a good hearty laugh, science, in many cases, is yet to prove why.”

“I was interested in law and wanted to be a Supreme Court judge. We see so many pending cases in India and people are not getting justice.”