Steven Soderbergh

You should never assume anything coming from a critical standpoint. You should go into everything assuming you're going to get crushed.

— Steven Soderbergh

"A meteor hits planet Earth" - that's a story idea but that doesn't give me any indication of what the character is.

— Steven Soderbergh

The key is, how do you feel with the one asshole? They cannot be talked to. That's why they are assholes.

— Steven Soderbergh

I suppose I could try to be some avant-garde artist if I wanted to, but that doesn't interest me as much.

— Steven Soderbergh

People are sort of numb to watching violence, but sexual activity is still as strong as it ever was in terms of…

— Steven Soderbergh

In Full Frontal and K Street, I learned to take advantage of the mobility that digital provides.

— Steven Soderbergh

If you’re sitting around thinking what other people think about your work, you’ll just become paralysed.

— Steven Soderbergh

Never had a cup of coffee in my life. Dr Pepper is my caffeine delivery system of choice.

— Steven Soderbergh

Well, it's 15 years since Sex, Lies And Videotape, and if you hang around long enough you're having the same arguments with…

— Steven Soderbergh

I think the feeling that we're going to work together again usually starts to come up before the first project's even done.…

— Steven Soderbergh

I'm not precious about anything. The effort it took to get something means nothing to me in post.And it means nothing to…

— Steven Soderbergh

A real litmus test for me is how people treat someone who is waiting on them. That's a dealbreaker for me.If I…

— Steven Soderbergh

I come from a generation that was surrounded by popular music, but I don't know if anybody's ever going to move the…

— Steven Soderbergh

You can't change who you are, so I think that the only thing you can do is just never talk to people…

— Steven Soderbergh

I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement…

— Steven Soderbergh

[I watch] Fincher, Spielberg, Cameron, McTiernan. Just people who are good at staging action. I like to know where I am. I…

— Steven Soderbergh

There's something really fun about watching people really good at something.

— Steven Soderbergh

My first three movies, I didn't start editing until we were finished shooting. That's unthinkable to me now.

— Steven Soderbergh

I make every movie like it's the last one. "If this was the last movie, what decision would I make?" That's how…

— Steven Soderbergh

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

— Steven Soderbergh

When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.

— Steven Soderbergh

A real explosion is not only much more fun to shoot, it also helps the actors and creates an energy on set…

— Steven Soderbergh

I just produced Criminal, this remake of Nine Queens, and one of the things that appealed to me about Nine Queens is…

— Steven Soderbergh

I can make a movie about Lee Harvey Oswald and make you feel what he feels and make you understand why he…

— Steven Soderbergh

A lot of people get very misty-eyed about celluloid. When I think of the time that's wasted in sending it back to…

— Steven Soderbergh

A success, to me, is the ability to keep working. That's success. It has nothing to do with money; it's the ability…

— Steven Soderbergh

Surprisingly, I don't throw away that much. I don't move forward with a lot of things unless they're going somewhere. You also…

— Steven Soderbergh

As vocal as some people have been about how emotionally attached they've been to celluloid, I've been equally emotional in my stance…

— Steven Soderbergh

I actually didn't find out about a lot of music until I was older. Some people have been listening to the Beatles…

— Steven Soderbergh

Every time you make something that somebody likes, your impulse is to remind them that if you hadn't made some of these…

— Steven Soderbergh

I guess I just look at talent as a very subjective thing. I mean, if you never tried playing an oboe, how…

— Steven Soderbergh

I don't have any kind of ideology that precludes me from moving in one direction or another. I just want creative autonomy…

— Steven Soderbergh

Ego is something that everybody, creative especially, has to grapple with. You need enough ego to keep going but not so much…

— Steven Soderbergh

If you're not flying people around on wires, and you're only allowing them to do things that people can really do, it…

— Steven Soderbergh

I'm in the process of working out an arrangement to make some very, very, very small films in the midst of all…

— Steven Soderbergh

Getting upset about Netflix, to me, is like getting upset about the weather. It's just something that's happening, and we have to…

— Steven Soderbergh

Some filmmakers, you know, have their style and then they kind of go looking for the movie. I'm not like that. I…

— Steven Soderbergh

You can create meaning where there was none, you can create feeling where there was none, you can create narrative where there…

— Steven Soderbergh

There are people who are originals and the stuff they make really is new. It isn't based on anything else. But I've…

— Steven Soderbergh

I guess why the Ocean's films are hard for me is because on the one hand you have to make sure the…

— Steven Soderbergh