Steven Soderbergh Quotes
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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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A real explosion is not only much more fun to shoot, it also helps the actors and creates an energy on set and ultimately in the scene.
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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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Every time you make something that somebody likes, your impulse is to remind them that if you hadn't made some of these other things that they hated, you wouldn't have been able to make the thing that they liked.
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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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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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If you're sitting around thinking what other people think about your work, you'll just become paralysed.
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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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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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When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.
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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.