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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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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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.
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I don't talk about my politics. I am registered as an independent.
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Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then again fade away and are dead.
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I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.
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When we say nasty things about other people, we’re really criticizing something in them that we don’t like in ourselves.
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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.
