Steven Soderbergh (Steven Andrew Soderbergh) Quotes
Everybody, including me, has to submit to what it needs to be. The thing is at the top of the pyramid, the best version of the thing; we all have to serve that. You forget that at your own risk. And I think movies are too long, in general.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
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Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.
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Movies are too literal.
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It's true, I did a lot of great movies, and I'm happy. It was what it was, and now I think all of that has fed into where I am now, and I think it has taught me a lot.
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Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
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I am very strongly paternal. My paternal instincts need to be acted upon. My love needs a release. I love everyone. I don't express my love enough, but the love within me needs a platform as a parent.
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My daughter's dabbling in showbiz, and she's done a few commercials. She's auditioned for some movies and shows, so I'm letting her pursue that. I'm OK with it.
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In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme.
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I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.
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Almost always, when we have fights in movies, they're done in these strange rooms where nothing gets broken. It's almost like they're in padded cells.
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I never cared about making one coherent masterpiece with a conventional narrative. I always wanted my movies to have images falling from all directions in a vaudevillian way. If you didn't like what was happening in one scene, you could just snooze through it until the next scene.
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I accomplished something big and that's a memory I will never forget.
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I would love to go do movies; I would love to kind of delve into other things. I did do acting and modeling before, when I was a kid, so it would be nice to use those things.
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Tell me, I forget, show me, I remember, involve me, I understand.
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I like thrillers. My style of movies are closer to thrillers.
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Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.
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Most of my films have a lot of character development and exploration, whereas in most horror movies the characters are just cardboard.
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So what? You're another person, so of course you look different. What do you need to be ashamed for?
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My God died young. Theolatry i found Degrading, and its premises, unsound. No free man needs God; but was I free?
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Don't forget to smile in any situation. As long as you are alive, there will be better things later, and there will be many.
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If you're looking to be loved for a part, it's great and enticing to be adorable in a romantic comedy. But then, as an actor, you get stuck.
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When I remember something which I had, But which is gone, and I must do without, I sometimes wonder how I can be glad, Even in cowslip time when hedges sprout; It makes me sigh to think on it,--but yet My days will not be better days, should I forget.
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Everybody, including me, has to submit to what it needs to be. The thing is at the top of the pyramid, the best version of the thing; we all have to serve that. You forget that at your own risk. And I think movies are too long, in general.
