Steven Soderbergh (Steven Andrew Soderbergh) Quotes

I'm not a snob. If I feel like there's a star that's the best person for that role, then that's who I get.

Steven Soderbergh

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• I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Film
  • Person
  • Certain

• The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Money
  • Political

• I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Great
  • Job
  • Success

• I don't write about my life in my column.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Life
  • Write
  • My Life

• I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my career and sharing their stories and music with millions of fans on air through TV and radio.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Music
  • Career
  • Rock

• It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Color
  • Out
  • Dictates

• I feel like the gods have certainly patted me on the head.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Me
  • Like
  • Feel

• In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Picture
  • Company
  • Wait

• Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Religion
  • Islam

• The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Up
  • Different
  • Country

• I get a great high from writing.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Great
  • Writing
  • High

• I feel like fashion and music relate to each other in a lot of ways. I always had to be creative: I'm a very creative person. I always liked making stuff. Apart from music, I always liked making clothes. You're able to express yourself.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Fashion
  • Yourself

• Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Japanese
  • Attacked
  • Destroyers

• Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Soul
  • Beauty
  • Tears

• My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Picture

• I think the kind of films and roles I do takes a whole year... I think it is justified. At some point, we have to come to that place where we are equally paid. It is a small step... we are headed to that direction.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Small
  • Year
  • Step

• Live theater is my favorite of all the mediums that I have worked in, so I have every intention on coming back to Broadway.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Live
  • Back
  • Intention

• The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me at all.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • Me
  • Said
  • More

• I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22. Most people that I knew didn't think they'd come home alive. I didn't think I would either, so I was happy when I did.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • Home
  • Happy

• No, Queer Eye has a book coming out before mine, in the Spring of 2004, in which each of us has a section and we do a brief overview of our subject area.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Book
  • Eye
  • Spring

• Almost all of "Julie" was shot on location in Carmel, which is a lovely resort town a little south of San Francisco. My co-star was Louis Jourdan, whom I liked very much. An amiable man, very gentle, very much interested in the people around him; we had a good rapport and I found talking to him a joy . . . We would take long walks on the beautiful Carmel beach, chatting by the hour.

  

  Doris Day
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• I'm the star of the show. I should have a decent haircut.

  

  David James Elliott
  • Star

• Since finishing my professional dancing career, I've been conscious of not letting myself go.

  

  Darcey Bussell
  • Career
  • Professional

• I'm not a snob. If I feel like there's a star that's the best person for that role, then that's who I get.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Star
  • Role
  • Snob