Steven Soderbergh Quotes
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A Movie That Costs Only $1.6 Million Doesn't Have to Be a Cultural Event to Turn a Profit.
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All human interaction, you can break it down to incentives. All relationships, at some level, are transactional. They're fascinated with incentives.
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I want to form a political party that's based entirely on what music people listen to. To me, it's a much better barometer of what they think and feel than their political stance.
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Never done an explosion, but I have had explosive diarrhea, and that was very, very real. Good thing I have my trailer.
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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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Your take on things is what is either going to make you somebody people talk about or no.
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Everything had been done long before I started making movies. I mean, there's nothing that Godard hasn't already done. You can't do a single thing that Godard hasn't already thought of. And so you struggle to do something that is not predictable.
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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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If you think that because you're Che, when you go into Bolivia, when people find out it's you, that they're going to have the same kind of reaction that the Cubans had to Castro, then you're high.
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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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Everything is the director's fault - you can quote me on that. There are no excuses.
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I don't have any kind of ideology that precludes me from moving in one direction or another. I just want creative autonomy and I want at least an opportunity that it's going to be seen.
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I don't consider myself to be particularly gifted in the way that other filmmakers are gifted.
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The key is, if youre not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.
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"A meteor hits planet Earth" - that's a story idea but that doesn't give me any indication of what the character is.
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I'm a big believer that if there's something you really want to do, don't walk away because of the deal.
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My working life is me doing what I want to do. This is that. I've made movies that people don't go to see.
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I feel I need to really think about whether there's a way to use what skill I have to address things that outrage me, like the 13 year old girl getting stoned to death. Because I don't think making a movie is going to help that, or change that.
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Men tend to define themselves by what they do, and so if you're dealing with a character who's trying to figure that out, or multiple characters, then there's something there for guys, too.
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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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It's a world in which people's motives are questionable and shadowy.
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Sometimes I might feel like a movie is kind of a weird idea and if I'm going to get enough money to execute it properly I've got to get somebody in it that is going to justify the expense.
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I guess I just look at talent as a very subjective thing. I mean, if you never tried playing an oboe, how do you know you're not the most talented oboe player ever? The point is that if you don't love it, then it doesn't matter.
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Some filmmakers, you know, have their style and then they kind of go looking for the movie. I'm not like that. I don't have one style that I want to take from movie to movie.