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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.
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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It's a world in which people's motives are questionable and shadowy.
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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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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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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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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'm a grinder. I'll beat you because I will not sleep.
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The art model of problem solving is incredibly efficient because ideology has no place there.There's only the thing and what the thing needs to be.
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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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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 like a lot of different kinds of movies, I like a lot of different kinds of paintings.
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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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