Steven Soderbergh Quotes
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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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If you're a painter and you want people to know who you are and recognize your work, you've got to build some long-term value.
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The key is, how do you feel with the one asshole? They cannot be talked to. That's why they are assholes.
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I suppose I could try to be some avant-garde artist if I wanted to, but that doesn't interest me as much.
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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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You got to deal with reviews the same way you deal with your views, which I a long time ago stopped reading because the point is if you believe the good ones you have to believe the bad ones. It's kind of all or nothing.
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We're all standing on the shoulders of what other people have done. But you're supposed to take that and add your own sauce. It can be intimidating, believe me.
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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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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 tend to be drawn more to people than pure story ideas.
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My father, who was the one who really got me hooked on movies, liked all kinds of films, and I saw all kinds of films at a very young age.
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Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film.
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I think '60s are appealing to creative people, because it seemed to be a time of endless possibilities, when the boundaries of what could be considered popular culture were being expanded almost by the week. It doesn't feel like that anymore. At times, I wish it were so. Radio is a perfect example; good God, I mean, back then the most interesting songs were also hits, and that's just not true anymore. It hasn't been true in a long time.
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That's why my attitude, even on my larger-scale movies, is to make them cheap. The less these things cost, the better for everybody.
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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.
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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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If I'm a director and I read a script and I say yeah I really want to do this, I would never walk away because the deal wasn't very good - that I wasn't getting paid very much or that the chances that I would see anything on the back end were remote because of the financial waterfall and the way it's structured. I would never use that as a reason not to do something.
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In the land of ideas, you are always renting.
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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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Stuff I like is getting trashed and stuff that is being praised I think is terrible. I don't really feel in sync with what's happening, but at the same time, what I think keeps me afloat is that I try not to be, and don't want to be, very indulgent. I try to make the films as lean as possible, and to not spend a lot of time crawling up my own ass creatively.
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A real litmus test for me is how people treat someone who is waiting on them. That's a dealbreaker for me.If I were on the verge of getting into a serious relationship and I saw that person be mean to a waiter... I'm out.
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I've never been a snob. It movie is just about stories. And I've never felt just because it's a big screen and you plop down your eight bucks that gives it a special meaning. It's just "Are you good at telling a story?"
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I like a lot of different kinds of movies, I like a lot of different kinds of paintings.
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The art model of problem solving is incredibly efficient because ideology has no place there.There's only the thing and what the thing needs to be.