So it wasn't like we assumed it would, but if there was even a possibility that it would happen, then you have to account for that. That would have been such a shattering moment, that to come back after that would have been just impossible. Steven Soderbergh More Quotes by Steven Soderbergh More Quotes From Steven Soderbergh There is sadness of when you're watching someone enjoy something that you think is substandard. The ineffable sadness when someone is happy and something is not as good as it should be. Steven Soderbergh ineffablesadnessthinking A lot of people go to the movies wanting the movie to be about feelings, and it's really not about that. Or rather it's about feelings in the abstract. Steven Soderbergh abstractfeelingspeople Every time you make something that somebody likes, your impulse is to remind them that if you hadn't made some of these other things that they hated, you wouldn't have been able to make the thing that they liked. Steven Soderbergh ablelikesmade I've never been a snob. It [movie] is just about stories. And I've never felt just because it's a big screen and you plop down your eight bucks that gives it a special meaning. It's just "Are you good at telling a story?" Steven Soderbergh eightspecialgiving I come from a generation that was surrounded by popular music, but I don't know if anybody's ever going to move the ball forward as far and as fast as the Beatles did. Steven Soderbergh ballsgenerationsmoving Some filmmakers, you know, have their style and then they kind of go looking for the movie. I'm not like that. I don't have one style that I want to take from movie to movie. Steven Soderbergh stylekindwant 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. Steven Soderbergh my-attitudecostattitude I think that it's fear. The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions. If you're 22 years old and you can't believe you're even in the position to have a career making music, the first thing you're going to think is: Maintain. Don't lose it. And that's precisely what causes you to lose everything. Steven Soderbergh believeyearsthinking I try to use other songs or bands as reference points - it seems like the easiest way to get across what are really differences of taste or opinion. If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do. Steven Soderbergh differencessongtrying 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. Steven Soderbergh realmeanpeople Everything is the director's fault - you can quote me on that. There are no excuses. Steven Soderbergh no-excusesfaultsdirectors 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. Steven Soderbergh energyrealfun The art model of problem solving is incredibly efficient because ideology has no place there.There's only the thing and what the thing needs to be. Steven Soderbergh problemartneeds Any time I think out loud, 'I can't believe this is my job,' and remember I am a very lucky duck. Whether marshalling hundreds of zombies, doing crazy stunts or shooting big music numbers, I just feel fortunate to have made my passion my vocation. Steven Soderbergh crazyjobsbelieve There's nothing else exactly like it in any other art form, the orchestration of so many different elements. It's endlessly fascinating what can be done editorially. You can create meaning where there was none, you can create feeling where there was none, you can create narrative where there was none. Two frames can be the difference between something that works and something that doesn't. It's fascinating. Steven Soderbergh differencestwoart The key is, if youre not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well. Steven Soderbergh wellsscriptskeys I'm not precious about anything. The effort it took to get something means nothing to me in post. It means nothing to the audience. I'll chop limbs off. I'll put an arm where a leg should be. I'll do anything. Steven Soderbergh legseffortmean A big part of making an album is that you want to have enough material - you want to have enough stuff for people to hear and know that it represents you. So it does sometimes turn into a situation where you're saying to the person you're working with, "Well, what do you want?" But then there are other times when I work with people and they'll turn to me and say, "How do you want to do this?" And that's actually when I work best. Steven Soderbergh albumsdoepeople I think that music is a very difficult art form in which to be avant-garde. When we sit down to listen to a piece of music, I think our implicit hope is that we're going to find it beautiful, or at least emotional, on some level. Steven Soderbergh emotionalbeautifulart We all get outraged by things and there are things that make us angry and maybe for a while we get angry enough to actually go do something about it. Steven Soderbergh outragedangryenough
