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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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Atlanta
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Steven Andrew Soderbergh
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It's a weird thing to say, but it would appear to me axiomatic that if you understood fully what I was doing and appreciated it, you would like it.
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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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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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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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I tend to be drawn more to people than pure story ideas.
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A movie is something you see, cinema is something that’s made.
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I'm not precious about anything. The effort it took to get something means nothing to me in post. It means nothing to the audience. I'll chop limbs off. I'll put an arm where a leg should be. I'll do anything.
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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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We're all standing on the shoulders of what other people have done. But you're supposed to take that and add your own sauce. It can be intimidating, believe me.
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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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In Full Frontal and K Street, I learned to take advantage of the mobility that digital provides.
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I always have a plan, but then I'm always ready to throw the plan out, and everyone's ready to make a radical left turn if necessary.
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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.
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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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Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film.
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You can create meaning where there was none, you can create feeling where there was none, you can create narrative where there was none. Two frames can be the difference between something that works and something that doesn't. It's fascinating.
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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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Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.
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The muscle memory of filtering away all the wrong versions of what you're doing improves the more time you're on a film set. I feel like my problem-solving algorithm got kicked up a notch.
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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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