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.

  

  Bao Dai
  • Country
  • Independent
  • Rather

• It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Time
  • Dead
  • Quiet

• 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.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Film
  • Acting
  • Skills

• I knew it was called 'Dunkirk,' Christopher Nolan was directing it, and it was a war film. That was all anyone knew.

  

  Fionn Whitehead
  • War
  • Film
  • Knew

• I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Me
  • Film
  • Special

• 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.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Myself

• When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • People
  • Love
  • Film

• My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Ideas
  • Independent
  • Company

• How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Play
  • Film
  • Act

• 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.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Money
  • Space

• I love Rihanna. She represents that strong, independent woman that you cannot keep down.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Strong
  • Woman
  • Independent

• Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Party
  • Question
  • Independent

• Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Up
  • Film
  • Movies

• 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.

  

  Yuna
  • Life
  • Music
  • School

• 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.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • History
  • Think
  • Film

• 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.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Remember
  • Know
  • Dead

• My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Film
  • Acting

• Poussey is a really huge part of 'Orange,' and I'm sure her name will always echo through the halls of Litchfield, dead or alive.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Always
  • Name
  • Dead

• I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Alone
  • Independent
  • Being

• I said the first concern of the administration of justice must, of course, be the individual. The second concern is the truth.

  

  Elliot Richardson
  • Truth
  • Justice

• Entrepreneurialism, to me, means being able to fail. And I believe that kind of leadership is not necessary only in business, but it's necessary for running countries, too. You've got to be able to believe in something strongly enough that you want to do it even if there's a risk of failure.

  

  Bernard L. Schwartz
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Running

• Furthermore, the National Day of Prayer has always been soaked in the kind of offensive “God and country” rhetoric that many of us find nauseating.

  

  Barry W. Lynn
  • God
  • Country
  • Prayer

• Everybody feels protective and possessive about Kurt Cobain , and I think that can be attributed to his unique gift, an ability to touch our lives, and make us feel like he's our friend.

  

  Brett Morgen
  • Friend
  • Gift
  • Lives

• When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Film
  • Independent
  • Dead