Steven Soderbergh Quotes

Don't just consume things, create things

Everything I've made - it doesn't mean they've all been good - but everything I've made so far, big or little, fiction or documentary, has been something that I've been really enthusiastic about.

I was always working. Maybe you weren't aware of the movies I was making, or the television I was doing, or the shows I was creating, or the books I was writing; there have been thirty. But I have always been solidly at work, running as fast as I can.

As a creative person, you want to have a foothold and sense of progress.

I'm always around creative people, and I'm trying to work on something constantly at all times.

For every one that gets made, there are five other movies that you try to get made that you don't.

For a film to be made is a small miracle. And sometimes it's a large one.

The historical importance of a composer does not always go hand in hand with the quality of their work.

I did a Norwegian film called 'Insomnia' that was remade and that was a good remake by a good director, so I'm honoured.

Take Tom Sachs as an artist. His brain is more brilliant than anything, so of course, anything he puts out over a ten-year period is going to continue to be super relevant. But if you look at some artists, they have one good idea, but unless you know where it's coming from, it's not going to be lasting.

My first time out of the gate, I made three movies in four years, and they were all very back to back to back.

I'd like to do a hundred different films.

When I successfully bring the Mamas & the Papas movie to fruition, I hope that people will say, 'She's also a producer.'

I want to be involved in lots of different things. I want to write and direct, and I make music.

It's not about doing something that's as big as 'Hamilton.' That may never happen again, and that's okay.

Now I do perhaps three films or 17 TV movies a year.

I write so much and I release so much music that I think I'm less precious about that stuff than a lot of people.

If I do a film, it should be worth it.

I've directed web series, music videos, film shorts, and theater. It's just a hat I put on.

As bad as some movies can be, good movies are also possible, sometimes through the very heinous corporations we love to trash.

It's pretty funny to me when I hear people say, 'I write six songs every day,' or, 'I turn out a song a day.' I bet you that's a whole week of bad songs.

I wanted to make a movie once at Lake of the Woods, where my parents had a cabin, which I now have. We actually planned, we wrote a whole screenplay about a kind of Indian spiritual group that was at Lake of the Woods. We weren't calling it that but it was Lake of the Woods. We wrote a whole screenplay about it but we couldn't get funding for it.

The best of any artist is in their art.

Just because good films don't work does not mean we should stop making them.

I have friends who I consider my peers, who have done amazing work, particularly in the film and television space, who came up as independent artists and who have been - to be brutally honest - much more prolific than I was able to be.