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I tend to be drawn more to people than pure story ideas.
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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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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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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Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film.
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I'm a big believer that if there's something you really want to do, don't walk away because of the deal.
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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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There is sadness of when you're watching someone enjoy something that you think is substandard. The ineffable sadness when someone is happy and something is not as good as it should be.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.
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There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.
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I'm a grinder. I'll beat you because I will not sleep.
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We have to have a version of our own story that we keep telling ourselves that allows us to get up in the morning. This version of yourself is what you sell to yourself. I think it necessarily includes ... not looking at certain things. Everybody's got some blind spot.
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