Steven Soderbergh
Steven Soderbergh
Steven Andrew Soderberghis an American film producer, director, screenwriter, cinematographer and editor. His indie drama Sex, Lies, and Videotapewon the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and became a worldwide commercial success, making the then-26-year-old Soderbergh the youngest director to win the festival's top award. Film critic Roger Ebert dubbed Soderbergh the "poster boy of the Sundance generation"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth14 January 1963
CountryUnited States of America
I tried very hard not to disturb the cast. We designed the story to fit the town, ... incorporate much of their own lives into the story.
They're forcing the issue onto characters, ... force these people to be humiliated.
A cycle of Americana from an oblique angle.
It added realism. Every once in a while, it's nice to see somebody on screen who you felt was from that place and spoke like somebody from that place.
I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.
When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't.
Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction.
The key is, if you're not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.
We feel in many cases we're going to get a better response to some of our movies in Europe, or outside of the United States, than in the United States.
I just wanted to make a movie about love and jealousy, ... but in an environment that you don't often get to see in movies. The whole appeal was the simplicity of it. The idea was just to not tart it up. These cameras make it easy to go in without any lights, on all real locations.
I approached them because I?d read that they?d bought the Landmark Theatre chain. They control all the forms of distribution for their own product - now?s the time to try this idea of simultaneous release. You really need someone who?s into each of those pies to pull it off. And so I called Todd and said, ?Let?s hook up and have lunch and talk about this. Don?t you feel - don?t we all feel - like this is where it?s going?
I liked that he was prolific. I liked the subject matter. I envied his ability to really be a part of the worlds that he portrayed. He was in it in a way that I could never be. And, I don't know, just the bluntness of his movies or most of them, I really like. I was watching a lot of them and had some of them with me when I was in Ohio, not to ape anything in specific, just for the feeling.
This is my response to certain trends in the entertainment industry, ... are gone. I wish it weren't so. Everything changes and evolves and we've got to get with it, embrace it and find a way to make it work. The movies are not the way they used to be when I grew up. It's 30 years later!
This is a genie that I think you can't put back in the bottle. The technology is available and the consumer, you know, is the one who is driving this.