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Your take on things is what is either going to make you somebody people talk about or no.
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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I never leave the writer behind, because you rewrite the movie in post, or at least I do. I always do, and I feel like anybody who doesn't at least explore that possibility is short-changing themselves. Editing is the most fun and most exciting part of the process.
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I just find it annoying that in these sequences [of the fight scenes], traditionally, there's music trying to pump you up. I don't like that, personally, as an audience member. This just reflects my taste.
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It's a weird thing to say, but it would appear to me axiomatic that if you understood fully what I was doing and appreciated it, you would like it.
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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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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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Castro, without question, is one of the smartest politicians that's ever walked.
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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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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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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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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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What's great about things like Kickstarter is that it enables me, finally, and without any bad feeling at all, when people come up to me now saying, I want to do this. I can just go, There are no excuses anymore.
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Once I had a potentially heart attack-inducing eight double espressos in one day. I think my assistant secretly swaps my coffees for decaf as she doesn't want me to die of caffeine overdose.
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Surprisingly, I don't throw away that much. I don't move forward with a lot of things unless they're going somewhere. You also have to remember that when you're working with other artists, you have to be really careful about how you deal with that stuff.
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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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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'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 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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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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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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