Steven Soderbergh (Steven Andrew Soderbergh) Quotes
I suppose I could try to be some avant-garde artist if I wanted to, but that doesn't interest me as much.
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
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A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
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When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.
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We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
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I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.
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Modeling has always played off my D.J.-ing, but it is a fun supplement.
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
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Hospitals are about healing.
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My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream.
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In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'
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People want fashion from us, whereas they might buy core styles from other designers.
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I had a weirdly awesome high-school experience.
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One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.
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It's kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say. I like to try to be as different as I can from one thing to the next.
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I very, very much want to be involved in helping those senators, congressmen, and women who support the principles that made America great.
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The self-anointed media elite among us believe, somewhat self-servingly, that not only the act, or process of making a profit is positively sinister, but also that the very desire to do so is.
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Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
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I like to tell the artist what the song or album means to me, in detail. Then I let the artist run with it and create in an unrestrained manner. Once the artist gets back to me with a few ideas, I like to do the little changes to make it perfectly speak to the audience.
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An artist has to be selfish; otherwise, he's not true to his own art.
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I suppose I could try to be some avant-garde artist if I wanted to, but that doesn't interest me as much.
