“I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.” WayFeelsEnoughBigsMightWould BeCertainTeachKnowingNot KnowingToilObscurity Author:Steven Soderbergh
“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. So you're constantly calibrating to play to their strengths. And the key is to never ask them to do things that are beyond their abilities or are really far away from who they are at their core.” PeopleKnowsYearsWellsEnoughPlayActorsAsksAbilityKeysScreensCoreFar Away Author:Steven Soderbergh
“Ego is something that everybody, creative especially, has to grapple with. You need enough ego to keep going but not so much ego that you're deaf or blind, that you're making a mistake and can't fix the course.” NeedsEnoughCoursesMistakeCreativeEgoBlindMaking MistakesKeep GoingDeaf Author:Steven Soderbergh
“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.” EnoughAngryOutraged Author:Steven Soderbergh
“If you're not smart enough to know what Fidel meant during the Cuban revolution, that - when they were on the Granma - Fidel was already a rock star in Cuba, and how important that was to the indigenous population, then you're not paying attention.” IfsKnowsImportantEnoughStarsAttentionRocksRevolutionSmartPopulationPay AttentionIndigenousRock StarCubaCubanCuban Revolution Author:Steven Soderbergh
“Sometimes I might feel like [a movie] is kind of a weird idea and if I'm going to get enough money to execute it properly I've got to get somebody in it that is going to justify the expense.” IfsFeelsKindIdeasSometimesEnoughMightJustifyExpenses Author:Steven Soderbergh
“I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.” PeopleIfsLongStillsEnoughSongRealizingRecordsWrittenHeardShameExcited Author:Steven Soderbergh
“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.” PeopleKnowsWantWellsPersonsDoeSometimesEnoughBigsTurnsStuffSituationMaterialsAlbums Author:Steven Soderbergh
“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.” IfsThinkingKnowsYearsFirstsBelieveEnoughSeemsCausesLosesCareersPositionMusician Author:Steven Soderbergh
“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.” PeopleEnough Author: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.” PeopleThinkingWantKindRealEnoughCharacterStoriesSeemsNumbersQualityTalkingAudienceTelevisionNarrativeComplexityAmbiguityLarge NumbersAmerican MovieWatching Television Author: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 just a new set of people every few years and it gets boring.” PeopleIfsYearsWellsLongEnoughLyingSexArgumentBoringDeceit Author:Steven Soderbergh
