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Steven Soderbergh

Steven Andrew Soderbergh (/ˈsoʊdərbɜːrɡ/; born January 14, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is considered one of the founding pioneers of the Independent Cinema movement and among the most acclaimed and prolific filmmakers of his generation.

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We're all standing on the shoulders of what other people have done. But you're supposed to take that and add your own sauce. It can be intimidating, believe me.

Add, Believe, Intimidating, People, Shoulders, Supposed

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.

Character, Enough, Real, Think, Thinking

Everything had been done long before I started making movies. I mean, there's nothing that Godard hasn't already done. You can't do a single thing that Godard hasn't already thought of. And so you struggle to do something that is not predictable.

Long, Mean, Struggle, Thing, Thought

I like a lot of different kinds of movies, I like a lot of different kinds of paintings.

Different, Kind, Kinds, Like, Painting

I'm always a little unnerved when I see a show that's set in the past that implies in any way that things were nicer then.

Littles, Past, Things, Unnerved, Way

I like to make all kinds of movies. I'd do 'Ocean's Thirteen' with the right script.

Like, Make, Movie, Ocean, Script, Scripts

I think that it's fear. The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions. If you're 22 years old and you can't believe you're even in the position to have a career making music, the first thing you're going to think is: Maintain. Don't lose it. And that's precisely what causes you to lose everything.

Believe, Career, Maintain, Positions, Thinking, Years

The traditional models for success are just also disappearing.

Disappear, Disappearing, Models, Success, Traditional

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.

Guess, Knowing, Things, Time, Toil, Would Be

You're being mean to someone who's helping you. What is that? Everyone knows who the assholes are, and I avoid them.

Being Me, Helping, Knows, Mean

I've begun to believe more and more that movies are all about transitions, that the key to making good movies is to pay attention to the transition between scenes. And not just how you get from one scene to the next, but where you leave a scene and where you come into a new scene. Those are some of the most important decisions that you make. It can be the difference between a movie that works and a movie that doesn't.

Believe, Come, Decisions, Differences, Keys, Works

I try to use other songs or bands as reference points - it seems like the easiest way to get across what are really differences of taste or opinion. If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.

Differences, Kind, Loves, Opinion, Song, Trying

I have a friend whose theory is that you're from wherever you went to high school. I think that's mostly true.

High, High School, School, Think, Thinking, Wherever

You should never assume anything coming from a critical standpoint. You should go into everything assuming you're going to get crushed.

Assuming, Coming, Everything, Never Assume, Should, Standpoint

I just produced Criminal, this remake of Nine Queens, and one of the things that appealed to me about Nine Queens is that it was a performance piece, and that's the most fun.

Appealed, Criminals, Fun, Nine, Performance, Queens

Truth and facts have to trump partisanship. There has to be something that's true regardless of what your angle is on it.

Angle, Facts, Partisanship, Trump

You can't get good at anything unless you do it day in and day out, over and over.

Day, Good, Unless

I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong.

Acknowledge, Evil, Government, Inherently, Law, Policymakers

I've never been a snob. It [movie] is just about stories. And I've never felt just because it's a big screen and you plop down your eight bucks that gives it a special meaning. It's just "Are you good at telling a story?"

Eight, Felt, Giving, Snob, Special

When I look around the world and think why is everything working or not working, it's because it's entrenched ideology. You can't solve a problem if you're sitting down with people who say, "All these ideas are off the table because of what I believe. "

Believe, Down, Ideas, Ideology, Thinking

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