Steven Soderbergh Quotes
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You’re supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you’re not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.
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I make every movie like it's the last one. "If this was the last movie, what decision would I make?" That's how I make my decisions.
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When I look around the world and think why is everything working or not working, it's because it's entrenched ideology. You can't solve a problem if you're sitting down with people who say, "All these ideas are off the table because of what I believe."
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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.
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To me the director’s job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.
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When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.
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I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves.
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I've found through experience that I'm only good when I'm writing something that, in essence, only I could write. The times I've written for hire, for other people, I don't think I've done very well.
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Surprisingly, I don't throw away that much. I don't move forward with a lot of things unless they're going somewhere. You also have to remember that when you're working with other artists, you have to be really careful about how you deal with that stuff.
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In Full Frontal and K Street, I learned to take advantage of the mobility that digital provides.
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Truth and facts have to trump partisanship. There has to be something that's true regardless of what your angle is on it.
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People like Chris Nolan are shooting isolated sequences in IMAX. Those cameras are the size of a Volkswagen.
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Nobody's talking about movies the way they're talking about their favorite TV shows.
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There is sadness of when you're watching someone enjoy something that you think is substandard. The ineffable sadness when someone is happy and something is not as good as it should be.
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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.
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I was lucky that I was getting exposed to a lot of different kinds of films, and I was liking them all. So it seemed logical to me that you could - as in the style of the studio directors of the 30s and 40s - jump from one genre to the next, with the same satisfaction.
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When we look at what's going on in the world and we see the immense level of conflict that seems to always be happening - you can always trace it back to competing narratives.
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You're being mean to someone who's helping you. What is that? Everyone knows who the assholes are, and I avoid them.
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You can't change who you are, so I think that the only thing you can do is just never talk to people about stuff and then hope that maybe does something.
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There's definitely a way of thinking and a way of being in the South that has its advantages and disadvantages.
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I think that it's fear. The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions. If you're 22 years old and you can't believe you're even in the position to have a career making music, the first thing you're going to think is: Maintain. Don't lose it. And that's precisely what causes you to lose everything.
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You can't get good at anything unless you do it day in and day out, over and over.
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If you're not flying people around on wires, and you're only allowing them to do things that people can really do, it can't go on for very long, because eventually somebody gets the drop on the other person and then it's over.
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In nature, if a cell gets too big, it divides. You can't come up with a set of rules that's going to work for 350 million people. You're just not.