Steven Soderbergh Quotes
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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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I'm a grinder. I'll beat you because I will not sleep.
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I stopped reading reviews about my own movies. I read stuff about other people's movies.
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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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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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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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It takes one asshole to ruin the whole thing. That's it. One. The problem with the world is one asshole comes up with a really bad idea and now we're all taking our shoes off at the airport.
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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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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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My first three movies, I didn't start editing until we were finished shooting. That's unthinkable to me now.
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A movie is something you see, cinema is something that’s made.
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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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Usually I'm thinking about the palette. I'm thinking about the color for the most part, then I'll start thinking about composition and movement.