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I just produced Criminal, this remake of Nine Queens, and one of the things that appealed to me about Nine Queens is that it was a performance piece, and that's the most fun.
Steven Soderbergh
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Steven Soderbergh
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: January 14
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My working life is me doing what I want to do. This is that. I've made movies that people don't go to see.
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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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The muscle memory of filtering away all the wrong versions of what you're doing improves the more time you're on a film set. I feel like my problem-solving algorithm got kicked up a notch.
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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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The art model of problem solving is incredibly efficient because ideology has no place there.There's only the thing and what the thing needs to be.
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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'm always a little unnerved when I see a show that's set in the past that implies in any way that things were nicer then.
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I think there are only two times that I've ever ended up paying somebody their quote. Like what they actually were worth in the marketplace.
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I guess I just look at talent as a very subjective thing. I mean, if you never tried playing an oboe, how do you know you're not the most talented oboe player ever? The point is that if you don't love it, then it doesn't matter.
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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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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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I make every movie like it's the last one. If this was the last movie, what decision would I make? That's how I make my decisions.
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