Steven Soderbergh Quotes

Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.

In high school, I started studying movies and not reacting to them emotionally.

The need to look behind the curtain is great for a filmmaker. But whether you want to deconstruct what you like as a viewer, what you like and don't like, I wish we could let films stand on their own a little bit.

It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism.

There's a lot of vitriolic ranting out there, but there are literally hundreds of critics on the web who care deeply about film and having something to say about it.

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

I read every single review, because I love film criticism and I'm interested.

I love film, and I think it's so important for kids to be educated about films and real life subjects that films cover.

Different films have different places in people's lives. I don't get to see a lot of films, so I want to watch films I learn from.

You tell me that 'Date Night' was good? I'm not going to see it. I will debate you on it, having no knowledge of the footage in the film. I was next to someone on the plane watching it, and they were dozing off.

I grew up understanding cinema from early on and was soon cinema-literate.

I went from silent films to watching French new wave cinema. I became entrapped by it all. That's when I knew I wanted to do film. The moment you start looking at film from a critique point of view - there's a difference between watching a film as an audience and with a critical point of view.

Sometimes I criticize movies. It's not fun to watch a movie with me, because I'll go, "That was a really bad shot." My mom's like, "Shut up, Chloe, watch the film!"

Young people today are flooded with disconnected images but lack a sympathetic instrument to analyze them as well as a historical frame of reference in which to situate them. I am reminded of an unnerving scene in Stanley Kubrick's epic film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, where an astronaut, his air hose cut by the master computer gone amok, spins helplessly off into space.

I'm very into details, so I watch movies just for the details.

I've seen 'Legend'. I like a different kind of cinema, but when done with conviction, anything looks good.

Criticism is okay from people who know the finer points of cinema.

'Alemaari' is an experimental cinema of sorts. If audiences don't understand it, the film will fall flat.

Every film you see in film school takes on a heightened importance in your life.

B.A. Raju garu is very knowledgeable when it comes to cinema. He has sound analysis.

I want children to learn to develop deep reading skills in the beginning in print. I believe the physicality of print is much better in the beginning for children, and then help them learn how to use their deep reading skills on digital medium.

If you watch a news channel, you wouldn't then say that that person who's watching the news channel thinks everything that the news channel puts out. You wouldn't think that.

I had a very late introduction to films. We didn't watch a lot of films while growing up in Kolkata.

Well, I thought the opening of 'Hatari!' was pretty good. And 'The Pink Panther' wasn't half bad either.

There's a really geeky YouTube channel which I love. It's a guy called Oliver Harper. He makes documentaries about films. He's a real movie buff - there's loads of trivia and detail.