Steven Soderbergh
Steven Soderbergh
Steven Andrew Soderberghis an American film producer, director, screenwriter, cinematographer and editor. His indie drama Sex, Lies, and Videotapewon the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and became a worldwide commercial success, making the then-26-year-old Soderbergh the youngest director to win the festival's top award. Film critic Roger Ebert dubbed Soderbergh the "poster boy of the Sundance generation"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth14 January 1963
CountryUnited States of America
It's pretty clear to me that working as a director for hire agrees with me. I like it. The films that have come out of that, I personally like better than the ones that didn't.
It takes one asshole to ruin the whole thing. That's it. One. The problem with the world is one asshole comes up with a really bad idea and now we're all taking our shoes off at the airport.
Ego is something that everybody, creative especially, has to grapple with. You need enough ego to keep going but not so much ego that you're deaf or blind, that you're making a mistake and can't fix the course.
I like a lot of different kinds of movies, I like a lot of different kinds of paintings.
Truth and facts have to trump partisanship. There has to be something that's true regardless of what your angle is on it.
Everything is the director's fault - you can quote me on that. There are no excuses.
Castro, without question, is one of the smartest politicians that's ever walked.
My first three movies, I didn't start editing until we were finished shooting. That's unthinkable to me now.
I always have a plan, but then I'm always ready to throw the plan out, and everyone's ready to make a radical left turn if necessary.
We feel in many cases we're going to get a better response to some of our movies in Europe, or outside of the United States, than in the United States.
The key is, if you're not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.
Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction.
When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't.
I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.