Steven Soderbergh (Steven Andrew Soderbergh) Quotes
Whenever you experiment with something, it's very easy to take the emotion out of it. And going back and forth between wanting to be respected artistically and wanting to move people is its own challenge.
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There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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If I'm preparing for something and I've got a huge day the next day, I have to get into character the night before to assess the scene. I can't assess a scene unless I'm in character, if that makes sense.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.
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As a New Yorker, or wherever I am, I just want to know I can get our of the house in five minutes if I have to and not have to spend a bunch of time obsessing in the mirror, trying on a million different options. Now, I just know what works.
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Obviously, I love country music, so I wanna be able to live in the country music genre and then play to country music fans.
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When a lion doesn't get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won, but has saved his life.
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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There are a lot of other things in this world that can and will bring me joy. Acting is one of them.
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I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven't even dreamed up.
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I see flaws as a kind of beauty.
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The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of.
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You learn that different people are made differently, and they have different ways to reach to their goals. Some people reach their limits of what they can produce and create, and that doesn't necessarily make them bad. It is just that they may not be right for that role in that instance.
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I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, he had a nightclub show in L.A., and I had gotten a VHS copy of it. It was a kids' show, but onstage in a bar, so it's sort of poking fun at the kids' show. And I was obsessed with that, and then 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'
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You gotta find that hook so everybody can grab on to it. So that you're true to the culture but, at the same time, how it relates to the larger tapestry.
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My mother used to dress me in quite good-taste clothes, and I really wanted things that were sparkly and spangly and trashy and nasty. I don't know if I ever chose fashion; it was just there in me.
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In making films, I'm constantly looking for people who are in conflict and who are going to surprise you and challenge you.
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But it is always a challenge to commercialize those inventions.
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No form of theocracy, whether it's manifested in a violent or non-violent form, is ever good for civilisation, and we have to challenge it in civil society as well as we would challenge Christian-based theocracy, or any other form of bigotry.
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Whenever you experiment with something, it's very easy to take the emotion out of it. And going back and forth between wanting to be respected artistically and wanting to move people is its own challenge.
