Apparently thereโs this kind of songbird that thinks it dies every time the sun goes down. In the morning, when it wakes up, itโs totally shocked to still be aliveโso it sings this really beautiful song.
Gus Van SantThe 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.
Gus Van SantWhen 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.
Gus Van Sant