Steven Soderbergh Quotes
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I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.
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I try to use other songs or bands as reference points - it seems like the easiest way to get across what are really differences of taste or opinion. If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.
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It's become absolutely horrible the way the people with the money decide they can fart in the kitchen.
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People are sort of numb to watching violence, but sexual activity is still as strong as it ever was in terms of generating response.
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Anytime you've got something that can take you into the political realm then you've opened up the conversation a lot.
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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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What's great about things like Kickstarter is that it enables me, finally, and without any bad feeling at all, when people come up to me now saying, "I want to do this." I can just go, "There are no excuses anymore."
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Once I had a potentially heart attack-inducing eight double espressos in one day. I think my assistant secretly swaps my coffees for decaf as she doesn't want me to die of caffeine overdose.
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I'm a grinder. I'll beat you because I will not sleep.
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My first three movies, I didn't start editing until we were finished shooting. That's unthinkable to me now.
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We people are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.
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I think the feeling that we're going to work together again usually starts to come up before the first project's even done. The Black Keys and I have already talked about starting on something new.
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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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I just find it annoying that in these sequences of the fight scenes, traditionally, there's music trying to pump you up. I don't like that, personally, as an audience member. This just reflects my taste.
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Every time you make something that somebody likes, your impulse is to remind them that if you hadn't made some of these other things that they hated, you wouldn't have been able to make the thing that they liked.
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The best set was probably 'Bloody Sunday.' We had no money for extras and gambled on months of outreach to persuade the people of Derry to turn out and march for us on one single afternoon. And they did. In their tens of thousands. Seeing them march, their patience and their dignity and their commitment, I knew the movie would have a quality of truth.
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In the land of ideas, you are always renting.
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When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.
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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 look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I feel like I have to work really hard to keep myself afloat, doing what I do. But I find it pleasurable.
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A movie is something you see, cinema is something that’s made.
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I stopped reading reviews about my own movies. I read stuff about other people's movies.
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Usually I'm thinking about the palette. I'm thinking about the color for the most part, then I'll start thinking about composition and movement.
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My experience over the years with working with people who are not actors or not trained actors is that you have to get to know them well enough to see what they have that's translatable onto the screen.