32 ordspråk av Steven Soderbergh
Steven Soderbergh
I'm sure some people will say, 'Why do this?' And my response is, 'Why wouldn't you?' ... The film business in general is using a model that is outdated and, worse than that, inefficient.
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Is it inappropriate for the director of 'Ocean's Twelve' to go to Belpre, Ohio?
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It added realism. Every once in a while, it's nice to see somebody on screen who you felt was from that place and spoke like somebody from that place.
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It's about love and jealousy, ... but in a place I don't think has ever been shown in a film before. Or not as it is.
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It's as much defined by the people who haven't gotten it as by the people who have,
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It's fun when you've asked the community for help ... you want to go back, at least let them see what the results were. We had a great time here.
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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.
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Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment ... but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction.
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That line doesn't exist, ... It's all exploitation. I mean, it is if you're honest about it. You pick up a camera and point it at someone, you are exploiting them. I don't care who you are. The issue to me is what is the agreement between you and the person you are exploiting? But I know the experience we had in Ohio and how people on both sides of the camera felt. And that is what matters to me.
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The biggest thing is people having access to the movie who might not have access to it for a while. They might have read about it and they're interested but they don't live near an art cinema, or they don't have a video store that carries this kind of stuff, and this way they can get it and get a hold of it as soon as they've heard about it.
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The technology is there. Consumers now want choice, and they should have it. At the very least, let's find out -- instead of speculating -- what it's going to mean in the long run and in the larger picture.
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They're forcing the issue onto characters, ... force these people to be humiliated.
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This is a genie that I think you can't put back in the bottle. The technology is available and the consumer, you know, is the one who is driving this.
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This is my response to certain trends in the entertainment industry, ... are gone. I wish it weren't so. Everything changes and evolves and we've got to get with it, embrace it and find a way to make it work. The movies are not the way they used to be when I grew up. It's 30 years later!
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We feel in many cases we're going to get a better response to some of our movies in Europe, or outside of the United States, than in the United States.
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