Gus Van Sant

'Gus Van Sant' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Van Sant, Gus Filmography

• Play in Full Screen City of Gold

  2014, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen At the Video Store

  2014, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Canyons

  2013, role: actor , character name: Dr. Campbell
• Play in Full Screen Une journée particulière

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Promised Land

  2012, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Revolution

  2012, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Promised Land

  2012, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen My Own Private River

  2012, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Laurence Anyways

  2012, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Act Up!

  2012, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Restless

  2011, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Restless

  2011, role: director
• Play in Full Screen The Advocate for Fagdom

  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen TV Festival Du Cannes 2011

  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen William S. Burroughs: A Man Within

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Virginia

  2010, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Howl

  2010, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Milk: Hollywood Comes to San Francisco

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The 81st Annual Academy Awards

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself - Nominee: Best Director
• Play in Full Screen Searching for Elliott Smith

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Milk

  2008, role: director
• Play in Full Screen 8

  2008, role: editor
• Play in Full Screen 8

  2008, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Critico

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Paranoid Park

  2007, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Schau mir in die Augen, Kleiner

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Chacun son cinéma ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumière s'éteint et que le film commence

  2007, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Paranoid Park

  2007, role: actor , character name: Guy reading newspaper
• Play in Full Screen Paranoid Park

  2007, role: director
• Play in Full Screen In the Mood for Doyle

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Paranoid Park

  2007, role: editor
• Play in Full Screen Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Queens of Heart: Community Therapists in Drag

  2006, role: miscellaneous crew
• Play in Full Screen Paris, je t'aime

  2006, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Lightfield's Home Videos

  2006, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Wild Tigers I Have Known

  2006, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Best of Chris Isaak

  2006, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Paris, je t'aime

  2006, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Wanderlust

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Last Days

  2005, role: editor
• Play in Full Screen Making of Last Days

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Last Days

  2005, role: actor , character name: Phone Voice
• Play in Full Screen Last Days

  2005, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Last Days

  2005, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen On the Set of 'Elephant': Rolling Through Time

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen On the Set of 'Elephant': Rolling Through Time

  2004, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen 101 Biggest Celebrity Oops

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself - #85: Psycho: The Remake
• Play in Full Screen Elephant

  2003, role: editor
• Play in Full Screen Red Hot Chili Peppers: Greatest Videos

  2003, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Larry Clark, Great American Rebel

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself

Famous quotes by Gus Van Sant:

"Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay."

"Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family. I've always been attracted to temporary families. They tend to be lost characters."

"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."

"There's always a risk if you don't do things the way you've done things before."

"I mean, I think I'm pretty sentimental."

"I've told people who have just started to make a film that the one thing you might experience is this feeling that everybody is conspiring against you, because you're not necessarily able to tell what's real and what's not."

"The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic."

"I think over the course of 14 films, I'm returning to a place that I know to tell a story... the same way Spielberg returned to fantasy, Lucas returned to the 'Star Wars' saga, or John Ford returned to the western."

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

"I had wanted to do a comedy."

"Everything's changing so fast that it's sometimes hard to keep up."

"I don't usually direct actors in the classic sense of that word. Instead, I try to remind the characters before the shoot what's going on in a very simple way. I then watch them, their inventions as actors, approving or not approving what they're doing."

"I've always been interested in how to present something that relates to our reality - which is not really... I don't even know if documentary itself does as good a job. It has its own problems in trying to get at the reality of the situation."

"Free time keeps me going."

"I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story."

"Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film."

"I did 'Mala Noche' as a way to do something that was outside of the system, because I was outside of the system, and I deliberately chose material that Hollywood wouldn't touch in a million years."

"You know, I don't think I had a concept of what I would be or do."

"The media has gone through lots of things that make it a less foreign thing to have your lead character be gay."

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

Gus Van Sant