Steven Soderbergh (Steven Andrew Soderbergh) Quotes
Everything had been done long before I started making movies. I mean, there's nothing that Godard hasn't already done. You can't do a single thing that Godard hasn't already thought of. And so you struggle to do something that is not predictable.
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Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.
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Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.
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Geffen was never supportive of the band.
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When I'm reading material, if I'm a little bit afraid of a part and I'm willing to admit that to myself, then I'll do it, definitely. If I'm worried about being able to do it, to get it - I absolutely just love it.
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Every year, our white intruders become more greedy, exacting, oppressive, and overbearing. Every year, contentions spring up between them and our people, and when blood is shed, we have to make atonement, whether right or wrong, at the cost of the lives of our greatest chiefs and the yielding up of large tracts of our lands.
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I am anything but a misogynist - I am quite far to the other side of that.
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I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.
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I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
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Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
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He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
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I don't remember ever deciding to become a performer. I just always was. I began performing by mimicking the performers on the new television that first took the attention away from me as the baby of the household. I continued performing to put a smile on my grandmother's face and always considered her when accepting or declining roles.
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No one in my family is in entertainment. They thought acting was a fun hobby, and when I got a degree, I'd settle down.
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I never count calories. Counting calories is stressful and intimidating, so I avoid it! I know that if I'm eating something that's a treat, I don't need to count it because I mostly eat healthy and am conscious of what I'm putting in my body.
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There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.
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You might be surprised by how interested young people are in older people.
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I've always found it embarrassing to receive awards.
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Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.
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I like to see people reaching back for the roots and for the reason why. Not intellectually, but just for the gut feeling of what it's all about.
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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
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We start with strong characters and build the movie from there. That not to say we don't struggle with story - that's the most challenging part.
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Everything had been done long before I started making movies. I mean, there's nothing that Godard hasn't already done. You can't do a single thing that Godard hasn't already thought of. And so you struggle to do something that is not predictable.
