Steven Soderbergh Quotes

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.

I think there's not a lot of real filmmakers. There are only a few people who make real cinema. I can count them on my fingers.

I love filmmakers.

Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.

Every movie has its uniqueness. You just do your best and go with it.

The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.

Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial movies, which I enjoy myself, but I wanted to be the kind of filmmaker who wrote original work, sort of like a novelist would who deals with who we are and our times or our relationships.

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.

The thing about working with Peter Jackson is that, at the end of the day, he is a passionate artist.

I want to continue to make beautiful movies. The most important thing is to be a part of beautiful stories, that's all I want. So I don't care if it's a Hollywood movie or an independent movie or a Spanish or American movie. I care about telling stories.

I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.

The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

In cinema, the leading player is the director.

In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.

I have so much appreciation for movies because I understand how hard it is to make one.

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

Hollywood is a film industry, a film business. I don't approach my career in that way. I see it as 'art,' and I become involved in films that ring my bell.

I don't see many explosions or ten-car crashes in the course of my life, so I don't put them into my movies. I would love to live in a society where 'My Dinner with Andre' made $100,000,000. Then I would be in the mainstream. I could do that stuff easier than I could do 'Meatballs.'

I think they built Hollywood on the West Coast because they were always dreaming of a New World. When they arrived here, the only way to keep dreaming was to make movies. Film was the fourth dimension.

The film-school mantra is that if you don't tell your own stories, nobody will.

It could be sci-fi, love story, historical drama what counts for me is the fact that they're made by great directors with a great point of view who bring the audience to be elevated and at the same time entertained. That's what cinema is.

Most of my films have been very character driven.