Famous quotes containing the words gus van sant, gus van, van, return and/or cinema:
“You never look at the backside of a mirror because when you do, itll affect your future because youre looking at yourself backwards. No, youre looking at your inner self and you dont recognize it because youve never seen it before.”
—Gus Van Sant, U.S. screenwriter and director, and Dan Yost. Bob Hughes (Matt Dillon)
“I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.”
—Gus Van Sant, U.S. screenwriter and director, and Dan Yost. Bob Hughes (Matt Dillon)
“Irrefragability, thy name is mathematics.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“Yet I shall never return to the past, that attic.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second and you can hop from one place to another. Its a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.”
—Frederico Fellini (19201993)