Steven Soderbergh Quotes

I'm drawn to cinema, especially when you're on a project that feels like it's going to be a challenge.

I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.

I always loved doing a movie with Daldry. That's always a huge factor for me.

In film, you're painting a canvas. I got really excited about that.

I thought we were making a nice little movie. That's how it was regarded by everyone else, too.

Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension.

I just produced Criminal, this remake of Nine Queens, and one of the things that appealed to me about Nine Queens is that it was a performance piece, and that's the most fun.

I think all my films can be enjoyed. In fact, they've often surprised me with how they're received.

I really enjoy working on small films.

There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in that direction.

I tried working odd jobs that had nothing to do with creating, and it was difficult for me. In the end, I just always loved movies. When I'm making a film, I feel most alive, like I'm doing the right thing, and I'm in the place where I need to be.

I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.

I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.

Every film that I have done has a special place in my heart.

Sometimes you like the personal adventure implicit in the making of a film, and sometimes you like your part in a film, and sometimes you like the final result.

I don't really make movies because I want to see my face on a billboard or because I want to get good reviews or have a big box office. That doesn't really matter to me at all.

To me, cinema is not a movie or a TV screen, and it's not a seat in a building versus one in your living room. It's the art of motion pictures.

The great thing about being an artist is, we want our work to be seen.

Why a musician loves playing jazz or classical music or what makes them happy, and why an artist likes to paint - it's so hard to actually put into words what that feeling is of joy that we get, but that is what I get: a feeling of joy when the camera is rolling, even if I'm doing something that is not joyous.

Mr. C. Klackner has for sale four etchings etched by myself, at the expense of two years' time & hard work - 'The Life Line,' 'Peril on the Sea,' 'Eight Bells,' 'Mending Tears,' - all of which are very good and should have been put forward long ago, but C. Klackner is waiting for me to die, is my idea of the matter.

What I want to impart on any movie I work on is I want to make it entertaining. That's what I feel I do.

Even the song that I did for Sanjay Leela Bhansali's 'Gabbar' is an old number. But working with Mr Bhansali was a dream come true.

Having done both commercial and hard-hitting cinema, I can say none of them are easy.

I am trying to do films that stay with me for some time. 'Banaras' stays with me.

I make films that are what they are. Some people like them, and some people don't.