With Good Will Hunting, Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasnt expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited experience, you can really blow test screenings by conducting them in the wrong way. – Gus Van Sant

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

Ive 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 youre not necessarily able to tell whats real and whats not. – Gus Van Sant