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To me the director’s job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.
Steven Soderbergh
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Steven Soderbergh
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: January 14
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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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The key is, how do you feel with the one asshole? They cannot be talked to. That's why they are assholes.
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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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