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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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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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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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There's a difference between failures and things that are bad.
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When I look around the world and think why is everything working or not working, it's because it's entrenched ideology. You can't solve a problem if you're sitting down with people who say, All these ideas are off the table because of what I believe.
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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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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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The key is, how do you feel with the one asshole? They cannot be talked to. That's why they are assholes.
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It's a world in which people's motives are questionable and shadowy.
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Your take on things is what is either going to make you somebody people talk about or no.
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The traditional models for success are just also disappearing.
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I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong.
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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 Movie That Costs Only $1.6 Million Doesn't Have to Be a Cultural Event to Turn a Profit.
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It's become absolutely horrible the way the people with the money decide they can fart in the kitchen.
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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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Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film.
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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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Jude [Law] is really good at playing an obsessive. He has a very watchable quality when he's on a quest for something.
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Castro, without question, is one of the smartest politicians that's ever walked.
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