Steven Soderbergh Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“To me the director’s job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.”
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“My experience over the years with working with people who are not actors or not trained actors is that you have to get to know them well enough to see what they have that's translatable onto the screen. So you're constantly calibrating to play to their strengths. And the key is to never ask them to do things that are beyond their abilities or are really far away from who they are at their core.”
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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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“You should never assume anything coming from a critical standpoint. You should go into everything assuming you're going to get crushed.”
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“I want to thank anyone who spends part of their day creating...anybody who spends part of their day sharing their experience with us-I think this world would be unlivable without art and I thank you.”
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“It's a weird thing to say, but it would appear to me axiomatic that if you understood fully what I was doing and appreciated it, you would like it.”
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“What are the stories you want people to tell about you?”
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“I stopped reading reviews about my own movies. I read stuff about other people's movies.”
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“Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.”
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“Stuff I like is getting trashed and stuff that is being praised I think is terrible. I don't really feel in sync with what's happening, but at the same time, what I think keeps me afloat is that I try not to be, and don't want to be, very indulgent. I try to make the films as lean as possible, and to not spend a lot of time crawling up my own ass creatively.”
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“I've tried to get better about weighing what I think the accessibility of an idea is against the cost of executing it. I've tried to be smarter about that, because if you're not smart about that, you're going to be unemployed. But I'm still mystified about what works for people. And I'm not talking about my movies, I'm talking in general. I'm mystified by the stuff that doesn't work. I'm mystified by what's going on in the critical side, too.”
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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.”
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“I always have a plan, but then I'm always ready to throw the plan out, and everyone's ready to make a radical left turn if necessary.”
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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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“People like Chris Nolan are shooting isolated sequences in IMAX. Those cameras are the size of a Volkswagen.”
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“There's nothing else exactly like it in any other art form, the orchestration of so many different elements. It's endlessly fascinating what can be done editorially. You can create meaning where there was none, you can create feeling where there was none, you can create narrative where there was none. Two frames can be the difference between something that works and something that doesn't. It's fascinating.”
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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 never leave the writer behind, because you rewrite the movie in post, or at least I do. I always do, and I feel like anybody who doesn't at least explore that possibility is short-changing themselves. Editing is the most fun and most exciting part of the process.”
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“I just find it annoying that in these sequences [ of the fight scenes], traditionally, there's music trying to pump you up. I don't like that, personally, as an audience member. This just reflects my taste.”
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“If you're not flying people around on wires, and you're only allowing them to do things that people can really do, it can't go on for very long, because eventually somebody gets the drop on the other person and then it's over.”
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“[I watch] Fincher, Spielberg, Cameron, McTiernan. Just people who are good at staging action. I like to know where I am. I don't like the kind of cutting where you don't know where you are.”
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“I make every movie like it's the last one. "If this was the last movie, what decision would I make?" That's how I make my decisions.”
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“A Movie That Costs Only $1.6 Million Doesn't Have to Be a Cultural Event to Turn a Profit.”
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“Well, it's 15 years since Sex, Lies And Videotape, and if you hang around long enough you're having the same arguments with just a new set of people every few years and it gets boring.”
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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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“Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.”
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“A movie is something you see, cinema is something that’s made.”
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“In the land of ideas, you are always renting.”
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“American movie audiences now just don’t seem to be very interested in any kind of ambiguity or any kind of real complexity of character or narrative — I’m talking in large numbers, there are always some, but enough to make hits out of movies that have those qualities. I think those qualities are now being seen on television and that people who want to see stories that have those kinds of qualities are watching television.”
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“When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.”
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