I try to use other songs or bands as reference points - it seems like the easiest way … - Steven Soderbergh

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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

Steven Soderbergh

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.

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