Steven Soderbergh (Steven Andrew Soderbergh) Quotes
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I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on.
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I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.
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I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
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I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
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Portraying visual impairment is difficult. I can see what's going on, but I have to act like I can see nothing. And this can be quite a challenge.
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I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.
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If I ever have children of my own, they will read 'Matilda.' They will watch the movie. And you can bet they will see 'Matilda: The Musical.'
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I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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It's such a relief to see Catholic and Protestant ministers getting on - that's so rare. And in 'I'd Do Anything,' I've had so much support from folks back home, no matter what side they're on.
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I see it as a responsibility of mine to teach others.
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I'm over the hill, maybe even the whole mountain range, but I don't see it that way even one little bit.
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I'm drawn to projects where I play these really complicated characters, but also where I can have some type of influence on affecting what we see as societal norms.
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I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
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You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs.
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I see girls who are so skinny on the catwalks, and I know so many of them destroy their lives and their family's lives.
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I was lucky enough to go to college for four years. At what was supposedly a hippie school with no tests and no grades, blah blah blah, I wasn't learning that. I was taking photography classes. That stuff just wasn't talked about. It was like, "Does this picture have the right about of grey in it?" It wasn't even an art school. It was a state-run school.
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I have tried to bring about better communication between people. I believe that humanitarian photography is like economics. Economy is a kind of sociology, as is documentary photography.
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When I feel tired and discouraged and I lie down on the sofa, then I think of the simplest thing I can – a piece of string – and I go in it and paint it. That's the way to keep painting – to create something inside that makes you want to recreate it.
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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
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Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.
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Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.
