Steven Soderbergh (Steven Andrew Soderbergh) Quotes
American movie audiences now just don’t seem to be very interested in any kind of ambiguity or any kind of real complexity of character or narrative - I’m talking in large numbers, there are always some, but enough to make hits out of movies that have those qualities. I think those qualities are now being seen on television and that people who want to see stories that have those kinds of qualities are watching television.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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We are paying the price for living longer, collecting degenerative diseases along the way. Cancer is only one. Others are heart and brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinsons.
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Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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Most days, I still feel like I need to be wearing mascara, eyeliner, have my eyebrows done, have on bronzer - the whole thing! I may as well do it all.
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I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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The only model to follow is pure Islam.
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A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
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We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.
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Let's dare to release our immature fantasies of a magically faultless U.S. system and a magically protected election process. We have been lucky as a nation, but sometimes continued luck depends on action.
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Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.
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Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. It's like a cancer that's metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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I don't think anybody is a poet 24/7, only in those rare moments when a person is producing a poem.
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I feel curious about every situation I'm in.
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One of my favorite expressions ever uttered by a player is Roy Campanella's line about how, in order to be a major-league player, you have to have a lot of little boy in you.
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Men need to live and breathe women.
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There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!
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I have a strong and strange character, and I've rarely met directors who knew what to do with this character. One of the few who did was my father, and in the theatre, Arthur Nauzyciel.
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Journalism is a character defect. I think most non-journalists would agree with this. It is life lived at a safe remove: standing off to one side of the parade as it passes, noting its flaws, offering glib and unworkable suggestions for its improvement. Every journalist must know that this is not, really, how a serious-minded person would choose to spend his days. Serious-minded people do things; a journalist chatters about the things serious-minded people do, and so, not coincidentally, avoids having to do them himself. A significant body of research indicates that non-journalists find us insufferable, perhaps for this reason.
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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
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With every movie, I try to do something different, whether it's action, comedy or drama.
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American movie audiences now just don’t seem to be very interested in any kind of ambiguity or any kind of real complexity of character or narrative - I’m talking in large numbers, there are always some, but enough to make hits out of movies that have those qualities. I think those qualities are now being seen on television and that people who want to see stories that have those kinds of qualities are watching television.
