Steven Soderbergh (Steven Andrew Soderbergh) Quotes

Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.

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• I am a Buddhist.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Buddhist

• In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Great
  • God
  • Different

• The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Important
  • Women
  • Money

• We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.

  

  T-Pain
  • Learn
  • Surroundings
  • Adjust

• The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Security
  • Calm
  • Overcome

• There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Blame

• I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.

  

  Dagmara Dominczyk
  • Always
  • Eye
  • Period

• All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Never
  • Silent
  • Tyranny

• My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Power

• In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Time
  • Writing
  • School

• When I'm filming, it's in the contract - 'No kiteboarding' - ha ha.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Contract
  • Filming

• Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Good
  • Children
  • Best

• When something's good, I'm not an over-celebrator.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Good
  • Something

• When there is conflict, it's good to step away, even for five minutes, because you could say terrible things that you can't take back, so it's best to walk away.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Good
  • Best
  • Step

• In zombie horror, the juxtaposition of the calm world of the living and the menace of the undead inspires terror. In zombie comedy, like 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,' it is played for laughs.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • World
  • Comedy
  • Pride

• Obviously, 'Lincoln' is not about the telegraph operator. There's a whole other movie before and after the two isolated scenes that I'm in.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Movie
  • Two
  • Before

• While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Real
  • Business
  • Justice

• We are constantly reminding them that they are in a competition. I had a word with all my contestants and I know Kelly Rowland had a word with hers. It's reality check time.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Competition

• Continue your quest by taking the test. Yes, but what test? What test was I supposed to take? The Kobayashi Maru? The Pepsi Challenge? Could the clue have been any more vague?

  

  Ernest Cline
  • Challenge
  • Supposed
  • Test

• Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • World
  • Country
  • Taken

• It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if he will pursue some other and better goal, dollars come around to see what sort of fellow he is.

  

  Vash Young
  • Man
  • Goal
  • Better

• I usually work really instinctively and it's afterwards that I think about what it means. I don't know consciously that I have these themes that run through my work.

  

  Nan Goldin
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Running

• Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Film
  • Supposed
  • Irony