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Steven Soderbergh
American
Director
Born:
Jan 14
,
1963
About
Films
Me
People
Time
You
Related authors:
David Lynch
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Martin Scorsese
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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.
Steven Soderbergh
You
Lying
Recovering
Like
Always
The key is, if you're not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.
Steven Soderbergh
You
Key
Everything
Pretty
Well
Around
Goes
Script
Then
One of the reasons why I think virtual reality, as a narrative format, is never going to go beyond the short-form immersion space is because the bedrock of visual storytelling is the reverse angle. If you can't look into the eyes of the protagonist, you cannot hold people's attention for more than 15 minutes.
Steven Soderbergh
You
Eyes
Reality
People
Space
Think
Virtual
Virtual Reality
Visual
Visual Storytelling
Minutes
Angle
More
Never
Attention
Beyond
Look
Protagonist
Because
Narrative
Bedrock
Go
Reverse
Than
Going
Hold
Format
Cannot
Storytelling
Reasons
Why
Cinema is not about format, and it's not about venue. Cinema is an approach. Cinema is a state of mind on the part of the filmmaker. I've seen commercials that have cinema in them, and I've seen Oscar-winning movies that don't. I'm fine with this.
Steven Soderbergh
Cinema
Mind
Seen
State
Approach
Fine
About
Part
Venue
Commercials
Format
Movies
Them
Filmmaker
I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.
Steven Soderbergh
Failure
People
Guy
Comfortable
Very
Being
Who
When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.
Steven Soderbergh
Out
Easy
Wrong
Go
Really
Hard
Figure
Why
Right
Things
A movie that costs only $1.6 million doesn't have to be a cultural event to turn a profit.
Steven Soderbergh
Profit
Only
Costs
Cultural
Movie
Turn
Event
Million
Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film.
Steven Soderbergh
Me
Excites
Like
Another
Versions
Same
Really
Multiple
Film
Thing
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.
Steven Soderbergh
Time
Me
Thought
Big
Not Knowing
Enough
Guess
Way
Would
Would-Be
Directions
Point
Obscurity
Feel
Knowing
Content
Very
Confident
Public
Might
Certain
Teach
Toil
Certain Things
Searching
Things
Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.
Steven Soderbergh
Weird
Supposed
Making
Irony
Really
Hard
Fun
Film
Watch
Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.
Steven Soderbergh
Photography
Else
See
Something
Something Else
Maybe
Just
Just Something
Paint
The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.
Steven Soderbergh
You
Car
Worldwide
Ought
Red
Combining
Like
Ideas
Armored
Cultural
Just
Stops
Movie
Desert
Traffic is about drugs. As detailed a portrait as I can muster about what is happening in the drug world, from top to bottom, from policy to how things move on the street.
Steven Soderbergh
World
Move On
Top
Detailed
Muster
About
Bottom
Policy
How
Traffic
Move
Happening
Street
Things
Portrait
When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.
Steven Soderbergh
Me
Independent
Independent Film
Memento
Picked
Over
Like
Nolan
Dead
Up
Get
Cannot
Film
Chris
I'm of the minority opinion that presidents should be given more power for less time.
Steven Soderbergh
Time
Minority
Power
Presidents
Given
More
More Power
Opinion
Should
Less
Less Time
There's something really fun about watching people really good at something.
Steven Soderbergh
Good
People
About
Something
Really
Fun
Watching
'Logan Lucky' is an experiment. The problem that I think needs to be addressed is, what has happened to movies for grown-ups made by people who are still interested in the idea of cinema?
Steven Soderbergh
Needs
People
Problem
Cinema
Made
Experiment
Think
Idea
Still
Happened
Interested
Movies
Who
Lucky
Grown-Ups
A lot of people get very misty-eyed about celluloid. When I think of the time that's wasted in sending it back to the lab and having it developed and brought back, it would make me insane. I love getting my hands on the stuff immediately. That doesn't work for everybody. It just works for me.
Steven Soderbergh
Work
Love
Time
Me
People
Think
Everybody
Back
Immediately
Insane
Would
Brought
About
Having
Developed
Stuff
Make
Lot
Lab
Very
Get
Hands
Hands-On
Sending
Getting
Celluloid
Just
Works
Wasted
When people say that moviegoing is dead, I go, 'OK, so the makers of 'Get Out' should've sold that movie to a platform? Then they don't have this insane, crazy success theatrically all over the world.'
Steven Soderbergh
Success
Crazy
People
World
Sold
Say
OK
Insane
Out
People Say
Over
Dead
Makers
Go
Get
Movie
Then
Platform
The reverberation of the freedom of making 'Schizopolis' absolutely resulted in 'Out of Sight' and everything that followed.
Steven Soderbergh
Freedom
Everything
Sight
Out
Followed
Resulted
Absolutely
Making
The key to making good movies is to pay attention to the transition between scenes.
Steven Soderbergh
Good
Key
Pay
Pay Attention
Good Movies
Scenes
Attention
Between
Making
Movies
Transition
You don't go make 'Schizopolis' if you're trying to protect some idea of yourself as a filmmaker.
Steven Soderbergh
You
Yourself
Some
Idea
Protect
Make
Go
Trying
Filmmaker
A success, to me, is the ability to keep working. That's success. It has nothing to do with money; it's the ability to keep getting things made, period.
Steven Soderbergh
Success
Me
Money
Made
Nothing
Ability
Period
Getting
Working
Keep
Things
It would be nice if all people who saw movies had some sort of basic understanding of what they're looking at, but I don't think you can assume that.
Steven Soderbergh
You
People
Be Nice
Looking
Understanding
Nice
Think
Assume
Saw
All People
Would
Would-Be
Some
Had
Sort
Movies
Who
Basic
Basic Understanding
As vocal as some people have been about how emotionally attached they've been to celluloid, I've been equally emotional in my stance that nothing is more valuable than this. Than being able to see the result of your work quickly.
Steven Soderbergh
Work
People
Result
Valuable
Some People
Nothing
See
Able
Some
About
Vocal
More
Attached
Emotional
Emotionally
Equally
How
Been
Quickly
Than
Celluloid
Being
Stance
Your
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