You can't get good at anything unless you do it day in and day out, over and over. Steven Soderbergh More Quotes by Steven Soderbergh More Quotes From Steven Soderbergh A Movie That Costs Only $1.6 Million Doesn't Have to Be a Cultural Event to Turn a Profit. Steven Soderbergh movie events inspiring Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but thats not reality, its just another aesthetic form of fiction. Steven Soderbergh tvs reality fiction 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. Steven Soderbergh ego creative mistake 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. Steven Soderbergh talking people travel When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead. Steven Soderbergh memento independent film I want to form a political party that's based entirely on what music people listen to. To me, it's a much better barometer of what they think and feel than their political stance. Steven Soderbergh party people thinking Anytime you've got something that can take you into the political realm then you've opened up the conversation a lot. Steven Soderbergh realms political conversation It takes one asshole to ruin the whole thing. That's it. One. The problem with the world is one asshole comes up with a really bad idea and now we're all taking our shoes off at the airport. Steven Soderbergh airports shoes ideas When I look around the world and think why is everything working or not working, it's because it's entrenched ideology. You can't solve a problem if you're sitting down with people who say, "All these ideas are off the table because of what I believe." Steven Soderbergh believe ideas thinking People like Chris Nolan are shooting isolated sequences in IMAX. Those cameras are the size of a Volkswagen. Steven Soderbergh shooting cameras people Everybody, including me, has to submit to what it needs to be. The thing is at the top of the pyramid, the best version of the thing; we all have to serve that. You forget that at your own risk. And I think movies are too long, in general. Steven Soderbergh risk long thinking I'm not precious about anything. The effort it took to get something means nothing to me in post.And 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 audience effort mean I'm mystified by the stuff that doesn't work. I'm mystified by what's going on in the critical side, too. Stuff I like is getting trashed and stuff that is being praised I think is terrible. I don't really feel in sync with what's happening, but at the same time, what I think keeps me afloat is that I try not to be, and don't want to be, very indulgent. I try to make the films as lean as possible, and to not spend a lot of time crawling up my own ass creatively. Steven Soderbergh film trying thinking 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 feelings When you get a certain level of resources, and you want things a certain way, I find it difficult to get too belligerent because it's not my money.In this case it is. It’s a lot easier to stand your ground and say “I want it like this” when you know it’s your money you’re spending. Steven Soderbergh difficult I like to know where I am. I don't like the kind of cutting where you don't know where you are. Steven Soderbergh cutting kind It's a world in which people's motives are questionable and shadowy. Steven Soderbergh questionable motive world I think often people fall into the breadth trap of wanting to do too long a period of time, and obviously there's this sort of algorithm of how much depth you can put into something times how much of their life you're trying to show. My attitude has always been, I'd rather show a briefer period of time in more detail than a longer period of time in less detail. Steven Soderbergh attitude fall thinking What's great about things like Kickstarter is that it enables me, finally, and without any bad feeling at all, when people come up to me now saying, "I want to do this." I can just go, "There are no excuses anymore." Steven Soderbergh no-excuses feelings people I've found through experience that I'm only good when I'm writing something that, in essence, only I could write. The times I've written for hire, for other people, I don't think I've done very well. Steven Soderbergh writing people thinking
