Steven Soderbergh (Steven Andrew Soderbergh) Quotes
When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.
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I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
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My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
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I knew it was called 'Dunkirk,' Christopher Nolan was directing it, and it was a war film. That was all anyone knew.
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I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all written by myself, and then I adapted 'Tsotsi,' so I was used to the writing process being, in a way, integral to my directing. I felt it really prepared me.
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When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
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My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
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Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.
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I love Rihanna. She represents that strong, independent woman that you cannot keep down.
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Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.
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Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.
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I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
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I read a lot of plays as a kid, but I didn't see that many plays, so I feel better-versed in film history and film structure. I just think it's easier to think in pictures.
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We now occupy the proud attitude of a sovereign and independent Republic, which will impose upon us the obligation of evincing to the world that we are worthy to be free. This will only be accomplished by wise legislation, the maintenance of our integrity, and the faithful and just redemption of our plighted faith wherever it has been pledged.
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India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child.
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If we'd had another carefree 70's, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.
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It's not about having a specific set time; both personal and professional lives are 24/7. It's simply, more about making the right allocation to each one and recognizing that it's going to be different every single day
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I failed public speaking in grade school, 'cause I was so nervous and scared.
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On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.
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I think it takes a strong man to be in a relationship with a strong woman. A lot of people hear the word "diva" and think of it as a negative. I see it as a positive. I want somebody who knows what they want out of life and isn't afraid to show it.
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Being a guy with tattoos, 38-years-old and thought of as a punk rocker, to end up on Nickelodeon is kind of weird.
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When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.
