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.
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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.
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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.
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I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.
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I don't write about my life in my column.
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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.
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It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
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I feel like the gods have certainly patted me on the head.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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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.
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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.
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I get a great high from writing.
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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.
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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.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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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.
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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.
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Live theater is my favorite of all the mediums that I have worked in, so I have every intention on coming back to Broadway.
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The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me at all.
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We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar-that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire-can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.
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I love cars, but I love bikes more.
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I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene.
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I'm my own doctor. I have a group of people who call me up on a weekly basis. I'm a 'doctor' without a license.
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So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only when fitted together, edge to edge, could they even begin to tell the whole story.
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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.
