Steven Soderbergh Quotes

If you understand gender differences in what I call 'conversational style', you may not be able to prevent disagreements from arising, but you stand a better chance of preventing them from spiraling out of control.

It's a difficult question of relations between people.

Some colleagues have said they would not be very keen on working with me, but I am sure these things were said in the heat of the moment.

I think all family businesses are difficult and fraught with problems because you have that family relationship to get over. But my dad has been so supportive, we've managed to work around that.

It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats.

If I have a problem with someone I talk about them. I don't pick on their kids.

I think I am aggressive, I think I am critical when it's necessary.

I've been lucky to work with people that I like most of the time. If I don't like them, I'll play head games with them to get their minds spinning.

I don't think roles help you resolve your issues. I just think they're good markers.

The difference between men and women seems to be this: I can argue with my promoter downstairs, accuse him of ripping me off, and 20 minutes later we'll be playing golf together. With a lady, the same argument can go on for, like, years.

I try not to deal with people's hostility, though I must if they have something I need from them, as the professors did at Columbia or my landlord did.

I started to fight with the men. I raised my voice, and they started listening to me.

My job is to analyze conversations and discover why communications fail.

I thought there was something intrinsically fascinating about people who communicate for a living and are incapable of communicating in their personal lives.

I've got a lot of criticism for not taking domestic fights but I've got my own strategy.

When I have one-on-ones, I usually win those.

I know how to stand up to a bully - but maybe more importantly how to work around a bully.

It's all realistic, if you get a group of ladies and you stick them together almost every day for three, four months you're going to have some catfights.

I had people come up from NXT and say to me, 'one thing we know is that we hear you're a bully,' I say that I am because I know that I am going to be bullied back at some point so I might as well start it.

If I feel somebody is getting volatile and taking things in other way, I better stay away from that person.

If I have a problem with somebody, I go ahead and say what's on my mind.

Soha is a very balanced and intelligent girl. She does advise me at times. We do discuss films but the decision rests with the individual. We are both strong characters and so at times our fights turn volatile. But me being a Gemini, I blow hot and cold, so I usually patch up in 10 minutes.

Even when a drunk guy, a program director, was slurring his words and telling me what to do with my career, I didn't react to him in a negative way. You kind of have to joke back with them to put them in their place.

In real life, it takes only one to make a quarrel.

The key is to put your outrage in a place where you can get it when you need to, but not have it bubble up so much, especially when you're asked to explain new ideas or explain what you observed two people who share none of your experiences.