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
Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film.
What are the stories you want people to tell about you?
I'm still very affected and moved by their music - maybe in a way that's different from someone who grew up around it.
A movie is something you see, cinema is something that’s made.
The brief flashbacks are sun-kissed, summery and optimistic. It's the only place in the movie you will see red, yellow, orange, or any vibrant colors.
I don't consider myself to be particularly gifted in the way that other filmmakers are gifted.
I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses.
Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.
But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.
When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.
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.
A Movie That Costs Only $1.6 Million Doesn't Have to Be a Cultural Event to Turn a Profit.
I like to make all kinds of movies. I'd do 'Ocean's Thirteen' with the right script.
In the land of ideas, you are always renting.