One of the things that is devastating is I realise I haven't been living a different life than when I was, like, 12. I'm shocked at how reclusive I've been since then. I was unaware of it until recently.
Gus Van SantThere 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.
Gus Van SantIt's hard to speculate as a human about the afterlife because you're not in it. And it's probably as wild and wacky as you could imagine. The idea that people have figured it out, I'm not sure if I can fathom that.
Gus Van SantIf you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas.
Gus Van SantIt's easy to keep score at a football game because it's just how many times you get the ball over the goal. But, when you ask an audience to tell us how many times the invisible ball got over the invisible goal, and they go, "Well, it was 46," they're just making it up. So, if you're listening to that, as though you're actually listening to the score of a football game, you're misleading yourself.
Gus Van Sant