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Steven Soderbergh Inspirational Quotes (96)

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What's great about things like Kickstarter is that it enables me, finally, and without any bad feeling at all, when people come up to me now saying, I want to do this. I can just go, There are no excuses anymore.
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My experience over the years with working with people who are not actors or not trained actors is that you have to get to know them well enough to see what they have that's translatable onto the screen.
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Jude [Law] is really good at playing an obsessive. He has a very watchable quality when he's on a quest for something.
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I'm probably more character-driven than plot-driven. It's rare for me to attach myself to an idea for a story.
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There is sadness of when you're watching someone enjoy something that you think is substandard. The ineffable sadness when someone is happy and something is not as good as it should be.
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You can't get good at anything unless you do it day in and day out, over and over.
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I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong.
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There's a difference between failures and things that are bad.
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We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.
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I tend to be drawn more to people than pure story ideas.
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In Full Frontal and K Street, I learned to take advantage of the mobility that digital provides.
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You're being mean to someone who's helping you. What is that? Everyone knows who the assholes are, and I avoid them.
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Castro, without question, is one of the smartest politicians that's ever walked.
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I'm a big believer that if there's something you really want to do, don't walk away because of the deal.
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If you're going to make a movie for ten thousand you can talk everybody into doing it for free. You could make a really good-looking movie right for ten grand, if you have an idea.
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In nature, if a cell gets too big, it divides. You can't come up with a set of rules that's going to work for 350 million people. You're just not.
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It's become absolutely horrible the way the people with the money decide they can fart in the kitchen.
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Your take on things is what is either going to make you somebody people talk about or no.
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Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.
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When we look at what's going on in the world and we see the immense level of conflict that seems to always be happening - you can always trace it back to competing narratives.
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I grew up mostly in the South, and there's definitely something about the South that's different from the North. When people ask me where I'm from, I say Louisiana. I spent more years there than anywhere else.
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We're all standing on the shoulders of what other people have done. But you're supposed to take that and add your own sauce. It can be intimidating, believe me.
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I had more fun making Traffic than either of the Ocean's films.
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I'm not precious about anything. The effort it took to get something means nothing to me in post. It means nothing to the audience. I'll chop limbs off. I'll put an arm where a leg should be. I'll do anything.
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