Steven Soderbergh (Steven Andrew Soderbergh) Quotes

Everybody, including me, has to submit to what it needs to be. The thing is at the top of the pyramid, the best version of the thing; we all have to serve that. You forget that at your own risk. And I think movies are too long, in general.

Steven Soderbergh

• Needs
• Movies
• Forget
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• Everybody, including me, has to submit to what it needs to be. The thing is at the top of the pyramid, the best version of the thing; we all have to serve that. You forget that at your own risk. And I think movies are too long, in general.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Needs
  • Movies
  • Forget