Steven Soderbergh Want Quotations

What are the stories you want people to tell about you?

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'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.

If I'm a director and I read a script and I say yeah I really want to do this, I would never walk away because the deal wasn't very good - that I wasn't getting paid very much or that the chances that I would see anything on the back end were remote because of the financial waterfall and the way it's structured. I would never use that as a reason not to do something.

I'm a big believer that if there's something you really want to do, don't walk away because of the deal.

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.

Some filmmakers, you know, have their style and then they kind of go looking for the movie. I'm not like that. I don't have one style that I want to take from movie to movie.