A Quote by Steven Soderbergh

The key is, if youre not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well. — © Steven Soderbergh
The key is, if youre not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.
The key is, if you're not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.
I use improvisation as a writing tool to help produce material that goes into a script, but a well-crafted script shouldn't sound scripted, and oftentimes people confuse something that looks like improvisation for what is actually a very well-written script that is well-acted.
If only the people around you know youre an artist, then youre doing something wrong.
Somebody is always reflectively monkeying with some of the parts of an infinite universe - monkeying as distinct from aping.
Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If youre a sportsman or youre a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what youre doing at any given time.
The script is really always the main attraction, and then there's whether there is an interesting character and great people around you. Those are the key elements that I look for.
The audience, the place youre in, has everything to do with how your performance goes.
I don't believe in technological determinism, especially not in biology and medicine. We have strong laws to keep doctors from monkeying around with humans that will remain in place. It's simply not true that everything that is technologically possible gets done.
The most basic organizing principle was pretty straightforward, and is frankly pretty common: the shorter of what are by my lights the two most engaging stories goes first, the longer of the two goes at the end, and everything else goes in the middle.
This is just the way it goes: there's always a cycle with music - it goes up and it goes down, it goes risque and it goes back, it goes loud then it goes soft, then it goes rock and it goes pop.
I'm just an actor. It's the way the script is written, and it's easy. I don't have think about it. When you receive the script, you know pretty well how to play it, apart from little technicalities like the accent.
Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements.
Whats fascinating is that when you write a script, its almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but youre not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you.
Some people revel in getting their hands dirty. These are the people that make startups grow wildly. People with hustle also tend to be much more agile - they're the water that goes around the rock. These are the people you want around when everything goes wrong. They're also the people you want beside you when everything goes right.
I was amazed at the rosy glow that can be around one when youre in a film thats done well.
The script is always the main preparation for me. Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it, but if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.
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