I like to make all kinds of movies. I'd do 'Ocean's Thirteen' with the right script. Steven Soderbergh More Quotes by Steven Soderbergh More Quotes From Steven Soderbergh You can't get good at anything unless you do it day in and day out, over and over. Steven Soderbergh I'm not going to spend two years of my life on something that I'm not excited about. Steven Soderbergh excited two years My father, who was the one who really got me hooked on movies, liked all kinds of films, and I saw all kinds of films at a very young age. Steven Soderbergh saws age father Sometimes I might feel like [a movie] is kind of a weird idea and if I'm going to get enough money to execute it properly I've got to get somebody in it that is going to justify the expense. Steven Soderbergh kind might ideas I'm not a snob. If I feel like there's a star that's the best person for that role, then that's who I get. Steven Soderbergh snob roles stars Castro, without question, is one of the smartest politicians that's ever walked. Steven Soderbergh castro politician If you think that because you're Che, when you go into Bolivia, when people find out it's you, that they're going to have the same kind of reaction that the Cubans had to Castro, then you're high. Steven Soderbergh bolivia people thinking If you're not smart enough to know what Fidel meant during the Cuban revolution, that - when they were on the Granma - Fidel was already a rock star in Cuba, and how important that was to the indigenous population, then you're not paying attention. Steven Soderbergh rocks smart stars There's definitely a way of thinking and a way of being in the South that has its advantages and disadvantages. Steven Soderbergh advantage way thinking "A meteor hits planet Earth" - that's a story idea but that doesn't give me any indication of what the character is. Steven Soderbergh giving character ideas I have a friend whose theory is that you're from wherever you went to high school. I think that's mostly true. Steven Soderbergh high-school school thinking I grew up mostly in the South, and there's definitely something about the South that's different from the North. When people ask me where I'm from, I say Louisiana. I spent more years there than anywhere else. Steven Soderbergh different people years I can make a movie about Lee Harvey Oswald and make you feel what he feels and make you understand why he believes what he believes. That doesn't mean I think you should go out and shoot JFK. Steven Soderbergh mean believe thinking Everything had been done long before I started making movies. I mean, there's nothing that Godard hasn't already done. You can't do a single thing that Godard hasn't already thought of. And so you struggle to do something that is not predictable. Steven Soderbergh struggle long mean I tend to be drawn more to people than pure story ideas. Steven Soderbergh stories people ideas I'm probably more character-driven than plot-driven. It's rare for me to attach myself to an idea for a story. Steven Soderbergh plot character ideas My first three movies, I didn't start editing until we were finished shooting. That's unthinkable to me now. Steven Soderbergh shooting three editing We decided that a dark comedy had the best possible chance of remaining in the minds of the viewers and also gave us the opportunity to use the complexity of these kind of financial activities almost as a joke, almost as the setup for a punchline, it's a very troubling time but speaking about it is the beginning, people have been speaking about it for quite a while but on occasion a piece of entertainment can be a conversation starter and get people wondering day to day 'in my everyday life how am I participating in this'. Steven Soderbergh company-news 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 eyes look you people 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 movies fine cinema mind
