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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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Atlanta
Georgia
Steven Andrew Soderbergh
Peter Andrews
Mary Ann Bernard
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Whenever you experiment with something, it's very easy to take the emotion out of it. And going back and forth between wanting to be respected artistically and wanting to move people is its own challenge.
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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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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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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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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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My experience over the years with working with people who are not actors or not trained actors is that you have to get to know them well enough to see what they have that's translatable onto the screen.
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If you're not smart enough to know what Fidel meant during the Cuban revolution, that - when they were on the Granma - Fidel was already a rock star in Cuba, and how important that was to the indigenous population, then you're not paying attention.
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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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If you're a painter and you want people to know who you are and recognize your work, you've got to build some long-term value.
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It's a world in which people's motives are questionable and shadowy.
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We're all standing on the shoulders of what other people have done. But you're supposed to take that and add your own sauce. It can be intimidating, believe me.
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It takes one asshole to ruin the whole thing. That's it. One. The problem with the world is one asshole comes up with a really bad idea and now we're all taking our shoes off at the airport.
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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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I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves.
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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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A meteor hits planet Earth - that's a story idea but that doesn't give me any indication of what the character is.
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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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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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A movie is something you see, cinema is something that’s made.
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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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