Steven Soderbergh Quotes

I'm not the greatest filmmaker. There are a lot of better filmmakers than me.

I think I'm a much better painter than an actor.

I never had the dream to be a great designer. My focus was just to do beautiful things.

I have a reverence for great photography, but I don't consider myself in that league.

I am aware that I am not extraordinarily gifted in terms of technique.

I don't see myself as necessarily a very creative person. I'm a technical guy.

I really don't think of myself as the best player on the team.

Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.

I've always avoided those sorts of self-assessments because if you give yourself a 10 out of 10 people think you're a big head, if you give yourself a 6 out of 10 they think you're plagued with self-doubt, so I'm just not going to rate myself.

Not saying I rate myself lots now, but I rate myself more because I've been exercising. I'd say a six now. Just above average. There are a lot of good-looking people out there, you see, so more than six is getting a bit cocky.

I don't think I'm extremely intelligent by any means.

Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought.

If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying.

The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.

I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.

It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.

I don't want to feel that I'm a singer or an actress - being able to say that those are just experiences is what I enjoy.

Few people are modest enough to be estimated at their true worth.

I never thought I was the best; I just thought I was one of the best.

Without false modetsy, I don't think I have a fraction of the talent of either Bevan of Foot.

If the guy behind the camera is not good, the pictures are bad. It's still you, and it's the same lines and everything, but it doesn't work.

Some people think humility is thinking lowly of yourself. Some people think it's not thinking about yourself. But, to me, the best definition of humility is radical self-awareness from a distance, seeing themselves from a distance and saying, what's my problem?

To tell you the truth, I never thought of myself as much of a success.

I'm a great songwriter, but I'm not the most talented musician.

I love music, and I can play a little. But anyone can see the difference between someone who's talented and someone that's not.