Steven Soderbergh Quotes - Page 4

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.

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.

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.

You're being mean to someone who's helping you. What is that? Everyone knows who the assholes are, and I avoid them.

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.

My experience over the years with working with people who are not actors or not trained actors is that you have to get to know them well enough to see what they have that's translatable onto the screen.

I like a lot of different kinds of movies, I like a lot of different kinds of paintings.

There's a technical reason why I think that frame rate is weird and it has to with your brain's ability to scan beyond a certain rate. The point is I find it looks weird.

When we look at what's going on in the world and we see the immense level of conflict that seems to always be happening - you can always trace it back to competing narratives.

Anytime you've got something that can take you into the political realm then you've opened up the conversation a lot.

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.

I think about art a lot only in two contexts. One is narrative... The other thing that I'm interested in, which is tangential, but not unrelated... All art to me is about problem solving.

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?"

I like to make all kinds of movies. I'd do 'Ocean's Thirteen' with the right script.

I guess why the Ocean's films are hard for me is because on the one hand you have to make sure the performances are there, but on the other hand it's a film that demands, to my mind, a very layered and complex visual scheme. That takes a lot of time to figure out.

My working life is me doing what I want to do. This is that. I've made movies that people don't go to see.

I had more fun making Traffic than either of the Ocean's films.

There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

It's a weird thing to say, but it would appear to me axiomatic that if you understood fully what I was doing and appreciated it, you would like it.

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.

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.

The key is, if youre not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.

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.

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.