"My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me."
-Gus Van Sant
TeacherView Quote
"My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.“
-Gus Van Sant
posted in Teacher
Other Quotes by Gus Van Sant
Discover more inspiring quotes by Gus Van Sant
"If 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 Sant
CarView Quote
"The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox for the advertising."
-Gus Van Sant
RomanticView Quote
"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."
-Gus Van Sant
MarriageView Quote
"The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our 'me' generation, our yuppie culture, our SUVs, or, you know, shopping culture, our war culture."
-Gus Van Sant
WarView Quote
"I had never had a positive leading character - somebody that wasn't an antihero, or who wasn't more of a guy that you're supposed to be on the side of."
-Gus Van Sant
PositiveView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies."
-Robert Frost
TeacherView Quote
"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."
-Bill Gates
TeacherView Quote
"Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
-Flannery O'Connor
TeacherView Quote
"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
-Hector Berlioz
TeacherView Quote
"Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."
-Denis Waitley
TeacherView Quote
"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."
-Thomas Carlyle
TeacherView Quote