Steven Soderbergh
The key is, how do you feel with the one asshole? They cannot be talked to. That's why they are assholes.Collection: Keys
Anytime you've got something that can take you into the political realm then you've opened up the conversation a lot.Collection: Political
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.Collection: People
I'm not going to spend two years of my life on something that I'm not excited about.Collection: Years
A movie is something you see, cinema is something that’s made.Collection: Cinema
Truth and facts have to trump partisanship. There has to be something that's true regardless of what your angle is on it.Collection: Facts
I always have a plan, but then I'm always ready to throw the plan out, and everyone's ready to make a radical left turn if necessary.Collection: Radical
I'm a grinder. I'll beat you because I will not sleep.Collection: Sleep
There's nothing else exactly like it in any other art form, the orchestration of so many different elements. It's endlessly fascinating what can be done editorially. 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.Collection: Art
I think that it's fear. The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions. If you're 22 years old and you can't believe you're even in the position to have a career making music, the first thing you're going to think is: Maintain. Don't lose it. And that's precisely what causes you to lose everything.Collection: Believe
The traditional models for success are just also disappearing.Collection: Disappear
There is sadness of when you're watching someone enjoy something that you think is substandard. The ineffable sadness when someone is happy and something is not as good as it should be.Collection: Sadness
Any time I think out loud, 'I can't believe this is my job,' and remember I am a very lucky duck. Whether marshalling hundreds of zombies, doing crazy stunts or shooting big music numbers, I just feel fortunate to have made my passion my vocation.Collection: Jobs
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."Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Father
I think '60s are appealing to creative people, because it seemed to be a time of endless possibilities, when the boundaries of what could be considered popular culture were being expanded almost by the week. It doesn't feel like that anymore. At times, I wish it were so. Radio is a perfect example; good God, I mean, back then the most interesting songs were also hits, and that's just not true anymore. It hasn't been true in a long time.Collection: Song
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.Collection: Thinking
Usually I'm thinking about the palette. I'm thinking about the color for the most part, then I'll start thinking about composition and movement.Collection: Thinking
I recently decided that I'm not an originator. I'm a synthesist.Collection: Decided
I've tried to get better about weighing what I think the accessibility of an idea is against the cost of executing it. I've tried to be smarter about that, because if you're not smart about that, you're going to be unemployed. But I'm still mystified about what works for people. And I'm not talking about my movies, I'm talking in general. I'm mystified by the stuff that doesn't work. I'm mystified by what's going on in the critical side, too.Collection: Smart
Men tend to define themselves by what they do, and so if you're dealing with a character who's trying to figure that out, or multiple characters, then there's something there for guys, too.Collection: Character
[I watch] Fincher, Spielberg, Cameron, McTiernan. Just people who are good at staging action. I like to know where I am. I don't like the kind of cutting where you don't know where you are.Collection: Cutting
I suppose I could try to be some avant-garde artist if I wanted to, but that doesn't interest me as much.Collection: Artist
My first three movies, I didn't start editing until we were finished shooting. That's unthinkable to me now.Collection: Editing
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 have to remember that when you're working with other artists, you have to be really careful about how you deal with that stuff.Collection: Moving
I guess I just look at talent as a very subjective thing. I mean, if you never tried playing an oboe, how do you know you're not the most talented oboe player ever? The point is that if you don't love it, then it doesn't matter.Collection: Mean
I never leave the writer behind, because you rewrite the movie in post, or at least I do. I always do, and I feel like anybody who doesn't at least explore that possibility is short-changing themselves. Editing is the most fun and most exciting part of the process.Collection: Fun
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.Collection: Party
A big part of making an album is that you want to have enough material - you want to have enough stuff for people to hear and know that it represents you. So it does sometimes turn into a situation where you're saying to the person you're working with, "Well, what do you want?" But then there are other times when I work with people and they'll turn to me and say, "How do you want to do this?" And that's actually when I work best.Collection: People
I think that music is a very difficult art form in which to be avant-garde. When we sit down to listen to a piece of music, I think our implicit hope is that we're going to find it beautiful, or at least emotional, on some level.Collection: Beautiful
People are sort of numb to watching violence, but sexual activity is still as strong as it ever was in terms of generating response.Collection: Strong
It's a world in which people's motives are questionable and shadowy.Collection: World
If you're a painter and you want people to know who you are and recognize your work, you've got to build some long-term value.Collection: Long
You should never assume anything coming from a critical standpoint. You should go into everything assuming you're going to get crushed.Collection: Assuming
I like to know where I am. I don't like the kind of cutting where you don't know where you are.Collection: Cutting
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.Collection: Real
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.Collection: Difficult
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."Collection: People
Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but thats not reality, its just another aesthetic form of fiction.Collection: Reality
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.Collection: Attitude
I'm still very affected and moved by their music - maybe in a way that's different from someone who grew up around it.Collection: Different
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.Collection: People
I'm not precious about anything. The effort it took to get something means nothing to me in post. 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.Collection: Mean
If you're not flying people around on wires, and you're only allowing them to do things that people can really do, it can't go on for very long, because eventually somebody gets the drop on the other person and then it's over.Collection: Long
The muscle memory of filtering away all the wrong versions of what you're doing improves the more time you're on a film set. I feel like my problem-solving algorithm got kicked up a notch.Collection: Memories
I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves.Collection: Trying
People like Chris Nolan are shooting isolated sequences in IMAX. Those cameras are the size of a Volkswagen.Collection: People
I just find it annoying that in these sequences [of the fight scenes], traditionally, there's music trying to pump you up. I don't like that, personally, as an audience member. This just reflects my taste.Collection: Fighting
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.Collection: Art