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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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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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I can make a movie about Lee Harvey Oswald and make you feel what he feels and make you understand why he believes what he believes. That doesn't mean I think you should go out and shoot JFK.
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You can't get good at anything unless you do it day in and day out, over and over.
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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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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 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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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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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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I make every movie like it's the last one. If this was the last movie, what decision would I make? That's how I make my decisions.
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We have to have a version of our own story that we keep telling ourselves that allows us to get up in the morning. This version of yourself is what you sell to yourself. I think it necessarily includes ... not looking at certain things. Everybody's got some blind spot.
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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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