Steven Soderbergh Quotes
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My first three movies, I didn't start editing until we were finished shooting. That's unthinkable to me now.
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I had more fun making Traffic than either of the Ocean's films.
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There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.
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I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist. If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.
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I guess why the Ocean's films are hard for me is because on the one hand you have to make sure the performances are there, but on the other hand it's a film that demands, to my mind, a very layered and complex visual scheme. That takes a lot of time to figure out.
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I'm not precious about anything. The effort it took to get something means nothing to me in post. It means nothing to the audience. I'll chop limbs off. I'll put an arm where a leg should be. I'll do anything.
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I stopped reading reviews about my own movies. I read stuff about other people's movies.
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Ego is something that everybody, creative especially, has to grapple with. You need enough ego to keep going but not so much ego that you're deaf or blind, that you're making a mistake and can't fix the course.
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If you're sitting around thinking what other people think about your work, you'll just become paralysed.
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When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.
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A movie is something you see, cinema is something that’s made.
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What are the stories you want people to tell about you?
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We all get outraged by things and there are things that make us angry and maybe for a while we get angry enough to actually go do something about it.
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I grew up mostly in the South, and there's definitely something about the South that's different from the North. When people ask me where I'm from, I say Louisiana. I spent more years there than anywhere else.