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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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Steven Andrew Soderbergh
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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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But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.
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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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If you're not flying people around on wires, and you're only allowing them to do things that people can really do, it can't go on for very long, because eventually somebody gets the drop on the other person and then it's over.
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I suppose I could try to be some avant-garde artist if I wanted to, but that doesn't interest me as much.
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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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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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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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The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.
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People like Chris Nolan are shooting isolated sequences in IMAX. Those cameras are the size of a Volkswagen.
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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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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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When we look at what's going on in the world and we see the immense level of conflict that seems to always be happening - you can always trace it back to competing narratives.
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I'm not a snob. If I feel like there's a star that's the best person for that role, then that's who I get.
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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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