Steven Soderbergh Quotes

Relationships are really what interest me the most. And I think, in the end, they interest most people the most. Even when you read Tolstoy or something, basically they're about man and woman relationships.

The thing that is always important to me is the relationships. I feel like until I get around with the actual people that I am going to be working with there is only so much that I can do.

In TV, you can really get into not only great characters, but also the relationships. There are all of the backstories and all of the relationships that you have with every person in your life, and the relationships those people have with each other. It's just more dense and there's more time to tell stories.

There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.

To me, cinema is cinema. Cinema is one big tree with many branches. The same as literature. In literature, you don't just say, 'Oh, I bought some literature.' No, you say, 'I bought a novel' by so-and-so, or a book of essays by so-and-so.

When you watch the films that I'm inspired by - from the '60s and '70s - it's not about the special effects: it's about the story; it's about characters and relationships.

I think, as most people are, I'm fascinated with love, relationships, and my daily life so I'm very inclined to make films about those things.

The script is really always the main attraction, and then there's whether there is an interesting character and great people around you. Those are the key elements that I look for.

Nothing's really changed for me over the years. I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that. Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends.

He'd never had to make the adjustments and compromises other people accepted early in their romantic careers; never had a chance to learn the lesson that Sarah taught him everyday--that beauty was only a part of it, and not even the most important part, that there were transactions between people that occurred on some mysterious level beneath the skin, or maybe even beyond the body.

Doing a love story as a genre, and looking at love stories in movies, and feeling like I learned stuff about that, and that it broadened my view and my idea of what I can do, and how I can work with the people around me, that was such a great, really satisfying experience.

All relationships have the same basic components: people, needs, and expectations.

Yeah well I think her relationships with people become really clear, and I think they all make tons of sense in line with Ultron as well.

A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

All topics, issues, and subjects in 'The Room' add to the depth of the characters in the movie, and they are equally important.

I think I always have Woody Allen in mind whenever I'm creating anything. He's such a genius, and I think 'Annie Hall' is one of the greatest movies ever written.

Even if it's a thriller or a comedy, it's always a love story for me, and that's what I concentrate on, because the love stories are my surrogates for the argument: two people in conflict that see life differently.

'Room' was more a study of an individual event, and 'The Family' takes off from there.

I'm a great believer in the novelist being 'on the scene,' reporting, traveling, meeting all sorts of people.

Women tell things in more interesting ways. They live with more feeling. They observe themselves and their lives. Men are more impressed with action. For them, the sequence of events is more important.

I'm interested in characters and relationships.

In 'Dear Father,' you will see some remarkable work in terms of the screenplay.

Relationships are very complex. It's very unusual to see something which is so 'complex portrayed on screen.

Part of the fun of writing is having messages. Without them, it's all gunfights and car chases, and none of it means anything.

It doesn't excite me as a writer to write some swearing or sex scenes, because they don't have any emotional content.