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I recently decided that I'm not an originator. I'm a synthesist.

Steven Soderbergh

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Steven Soderbergh
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: January 14
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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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My father, who was the one who really got me hooked on movies, liked all kinds of films, and I saw all kinds of films at a very young age.
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I stopped reading reviews about my own movies. I read stuff about other people's movies.
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In Full Frontal and K Street, I learned to take advantage of the mobility that digital provides.
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A real explosion is not only much more fun to shoot, it also helps the actors and creates an energy on set and ultimately in the scene.
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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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That's why my attitude, even on my larger-scale movies, is to make them cheap. The less these things cost, the better for everybody.
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In nature, if a cell gets too big, it divides. You can't come up with a set of rules that's going to work for 350 million people. You're just not.
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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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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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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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I'm not going to spend two years of my life on something that I'm not excited about.
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The traditional models for success are just also disappearing.
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