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A movie is something you see, cinema is something that’s made.
Steven Soderbergh
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Steven Soderbergh
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: January 14
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Atlanta
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Steven Andrew Soderbergh
Peter Andrews
Mary Ann Bernard
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I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.
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A real explosion is not only much more fun to shoot, it also helps the actors and creates an energy on set and ultimately in the scene.
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I'm a grinder. I'll beat you because I will not sleep.
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Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film.
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When I look around the world and think why is everything working or not working, it's because it's entrenched ideology. You can't solve a problem if you're sitting down with people who say, All these ideas are off the table because of what I believe.
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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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I have a friend whose theory is that you're from wherever you went to high school. I think that's mostly true.
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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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You should never assume anything coming from a critical standpoint. You should go into everything assuming you're going to get crushed.
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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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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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There's a difference between failures and things that are bad.
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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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I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist. If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.
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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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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 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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People like Chris Nolan are shooting isolated sequences in IMAX. Those cameras are the size of a Volkswagen.
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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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Every time you make something that somebody likes, your impulse is to remind them that if you hadn't made some of these other things that they hated, you wouldn't have been able to make the thing that they liked.
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