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There's a difference between failures and things that are bad.

Steven Soderbergh

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Steven Soderbergh
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: January 14
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Steven Andrew Soderbergh
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All human interaction, you can break it down to incentives. All relationships, at some level, are transactional. They're fascinated with incentives.
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Well, it's 15 years since Sex, Lies And Videotape, and if you hang around long enough you're having the same arguments with just a new set of people every few years and it gets boring.
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You can create meaning where there was none, you can create feeling where there was none, you can create narrative where there was none. Two frames can be the difference between something that works and something that doesn't. It's fascinating.
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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 like a lot of different kinds of movies, I like a lot of different kinds of paintings.
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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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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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I think that music is a very difficult art form in which to be avant-garde. When we sit down to listen to a piece of music, I think our implicit hope is that we're going to find it beautiful, or at least emotional, on some level.
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A real litmus test for me is how people treat someone who is waiting on them. That's a dealbreaker for me.If I were on the verge of getting into a serious relationship and I saw that person be mean to a waiter... I'm out.
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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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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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You’re supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you’re not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.
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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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I recently decided that I'm not an originator. I'm a synthesist.
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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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Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.
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Castro, without question, is one of the smartest politicians that's ever walked.
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I always have a plan, but then I'm always ready to throw the plan out, and everyone's ready to make a radical left turn if necessary.
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