Director Gus Van Sant is the brains behind gems like Drugstore ... Loosely inspired by the Columbine massacre, the daring, divisive Elephant follows multiple students over the course of a single ...

"In the next 45 minutes, we're about to hear Gus speak ... knew each other." "Elephant," about an inconceivable American tragedy, somehow struck the right note. One of Van Sant's masterworks ...

"Ouverture of Something that Never Ended," a film series co-directed by Gus Van Sant for Gucci ... at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival for his film Elephant. He lives in Portland, Oregon.