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My experience over the years with working with people who are not actors or not trained actors is that you have to get to know them well enough to see what they have that's translatable onto the screen.
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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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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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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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 think that music is a very difficult art form in which to be avant-garde. When we sit down to listen to a piece of music, I think our implicit hope is that we're going to find it beautiful, or at least emotional, on some level.
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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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It's become absolutely horrible the way the people with the money decide they can fart in the kitchen.
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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 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 come from a generation that was surrounded by popular music, but I don't know if anybody's ever going to move the ball forward as far and as fast as the Beatles did.
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I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist. If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.
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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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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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You should never assume anything coming from a critical standpoint. You should go into everything assuming you're going to get crushed.
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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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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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