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
Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment ... but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction.
Anytime you've got something that can take you into the political realm then you've opened up the conversation a lot.
Never done an explosion, but I have had explosive diarrhea, and that was very, very real. Good thing I have my trailer.
A real explosion is not only much more fun to shoot, it also helps the actors and creates an energy on set and ultimately in the scene.
Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but thats not reality, its just another aesthetic form of fiction.
A real litmus test for me is how people treat someone who is waiting on them. That's a dealbreaker for me.If I were on the verge of getting into a serious relationship and I saw that person be mean to a waiter... I'm out.
American movie audiences now just don’t seem to be very interested in any kind of ambiguity or any kind of real complexity of character or narrative — I’m talking in large numbers, there are always some, but enough to make hits out of movies that have those qualities. I think those qualities are now being seen on television and that people who want to see stories that have those kinds of qualities are watching television.
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.
We had a big night over there, where I destroyed Misty Wilkins in a game of straight pool. She was talking trash and we went over there and I beat her senseless.
I don't think we should be trying to control how people experience art. They can see it on a screen or on a T-shirt. If you've got something that's interesting, it just really doesn't matter how they're seeing it.
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.
I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.
When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't.
Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction.