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 as much defined by the people who haven't gotten it as by the people who have,
It added realism. Every once in a while, it's nice to see somebody on screen who you felt was from that place and spoke like somebody from that place.
A cycle of Americana from an oblique angle.
I want them to sell 'Bubble' DVDs in the theater lobby,
Is it inappropriate for the director of 'Ocean's Twelve' to go to Belpre, Ohio?
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.
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.
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.
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.