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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 recently decided that I'm not an originator. I'm a synthesist.
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Everything had been done long before I started making movies. I mean, there's nothing that Godard hasn't already done. You can't do a single thing that Godard hasn't already thought of. And so you struggle to do something that is not predictable.
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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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Truth and facts have to trump partisanship. There has to be something that's true regardless of what your angle is on it.
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I actually didn't find out about a lot of music until I was older. Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.
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I stopped reading reviews about my own movies. I read stuff about other people's movies.
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I'm in the process of working out an arrangement to make some very, very, very small films in the midst of all these films and maybe that will help. But you get tired of talking. You just want to do it.
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Castro, without question, is one of the smartest politicians that's ever walked.
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I can make a movie about Lee Harvey Oswald and make you feel what he feels and make you understand why he believes what he believes. That doesn't mean I think you should go out and shoot JFK.
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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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There's a big difference between a movie about relationships and a movie in which people talk about relationships. It seems like a lot of people have confused the two.
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The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.
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I want to thank anyone who spends part of their day creating...anybody who spends part of their day sharing their experience with us-I think this world would be unlivable without art and I thank you.
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But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.
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I like a lot of different kinds of movies, I like a lot of different kinds of paintings.
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Some filmmakers, you know, have their style and then they kind of go looking for the movie. I'm not like that. I don't have one style that I want to take from movie to movie.
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Sometimes I might feel like [a movie] is kind of a weird idea and if I'm going to get enough money to execute it properly I've got to get somebody in it that is going to justify the expense.
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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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I'm not precious about anything. The effort it took to get something means nothing to me in post.And 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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You can't change who you are, so I think that the only thing you can do is just never talk to people about stuff and then hope that maybe does something.
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