18 Quotes by Steven Shainberg

Basically, independent film doesn't exist anymore. It does if you have two or three stars in your film, but it's just very difficult.

I'm almost exclusively interested in what happens behind closed doors, between people. The removal of their public face.

After 'Secretary,' I was wanting very badly to find something to make that I really cared about.

I'm basically drawn to defeated, injured, hurt, barely walking characters.

If somebody sent me a good script, I would do it, and I mean that, but it never happens. Not once. I can't even point to an exception.

I think a lot of young women are probably fearful or embarrassed or cautious or hiding whatever their particular sexuality might be. From the most odd to the just slightly abberrant.

You don't make movies about "men" and "women." You make movies about this guy and this woman and if you get them right, you'll automatically connect with a lot of people.

The movie that made me want to make movies was "Blue Velvet."

The problem with most love stories in my opinion is that they're too simplistic.