Steven Soderbergh (Steven Andrew Soderbergh) Quotes
I never leave the writer behind, because you rewrite the movie in post, or at least I do. I always do, and I feel like anybody who doesn't at least explore that possibility is short-changing themselves. Editing is the most fun and most exciting part of the process.
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I love heavy music. I keep Flume nice and melodic, so I save the angry, testosterone-fueled heavy stuff for What So Not. I think it's a good defining thing for the two projects.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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I am surprised people took so long to pick up on the fact that my contract expires at the end of this year. Eddie has to decide who he wants to drive, so there is no secret anywhere. I am not concerned. It does not sit with my objectives to be competitive.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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I'm prepared for Amir Khan moving swiftly - or for whatever style he comes out using. I prepared with sparring, in the style similar to what he uses.
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Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut its doors.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
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I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
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Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
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When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.
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We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family.
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Everyone has class, one class or another.
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It is difficult to remember just how formal middle-class life was in the 1930's and '40s. I wore a suit and tie at home from the age of 18. One dressed for breakfast. One lived in a very formal way, and emotions were not paraded. And my childhood was not unusual.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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To what happy accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit?
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The second time around, I'll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn't care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.
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I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.
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I do a TV show about a priest in London, and he is also slightly beleaguered and is subject to fate and misfortune and daily difficulty.
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I appeal to people all across the political spectrum.
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The softest in the world surpasses the hardest in the world.
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I never leave the writer behind, because you rewrite the movie in post, or at least I do. I always do, and I feel like anybody who doesn't at least explore that possibility is short-changing themselves. Editing is the most fun and most exciting part of the process.
