293 Quotes by Steven Soderbergh
"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."
"Truth and facts have to trump partisanship. There has to be something that's true regardless of what your angle is on it."
"If you're going to make a movie for ten thousand you can talk everybody into doing it for free. You could make a really good-looking movie right for ten grand, if you have an idea."
"I've begun to believe more and more that movies are all about transitions, that the key to making good movies is to pay attention to the transition between scenes. And not just how you get from one scene to the next, but where you leave a scene and where you come into a new scene. Those are some of the most important decisions that you make. It can be the difference between a movie that works and a movie that doesn't."
"I think there are only two times that I've ever ended up paying somebody their quote. Like what they actually were worth in the marketplace."
"We have to have a version of our own story that we keep telling ourselves that allows us to get up in the morning. This version of yourself is what you sell to yourself. I think it necessarily includes ... not looking at certain things. Everybody's got some blind spot."
"The key is, if youre not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well."
"People are sort of numb to watching violence, but sexual activity is still as strong as it ever was in terms of generating response."
"You’re supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you’re not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind."