Steven Soderbergh Quotes

The world is full of people who say, 'But I had that idea first,' but did they do anything about it? Nope, they sat on their bum dreaming.

Being in New York, and meeting really amazing, talented, eccentric, and bold people, and just feeling really excited about life, got me really revved up and I just felt like everything was at my fingertips - that I could try anything. I really felt invincible. It was such a shift.

When you meet someone with a vision, you have to give them a shot and an opportunity to see what they can do.

It is for your good, consider, that we publish this little journal. Sleep no more. It is time, wake up. No one is there to speak for you.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

A movement only takes form from that first act. Exploring a curiosity, or a real passion, and being motivated by a desire to solve something - that's really the best way.

I give people on my team the opportunity to excel as well, and I think that's what continues to keep me ahead. I may not be able to show or do an interview; I give them the opportunity to run the show, and that has been working.

When the opportunity is there, you have to let your creative juices start flowing and reach and grab for it.

Kickstarter has shifted from funding creative projects to funding products and videogames; the biggest funded are consumer electronics and video game projects.

Money is for making things happen.

If leadership is about anything, it's about leading. Not leading people back to where they already are, because they don't need that. They're already there.

I know it's easy to imagine, But it's easier to just do, See, if you can't do what you imagine, then what is imagination to you?

As a director and filmmaker, I love creating my own opportunity, and getting to share the love, in that way, by creating other opportunities for people that I admire, so that they can do something in a way they haven't done it before.

Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.

The people who dream are very often the people who see, and dreaming and seeing precede doing.

I've wanted to do things; I wanted to build things, to get something going.

You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.

You've got to create the space, then fill it.

Love , creativity, and opportunity is in the air. Take it in and do your thing.

People get very creative if you include them.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless.

Recession always encourages entrepreneurialism and innovation. It does that every time because when people have no options they look at other things.

Though progress starts with the imagination, only work can make things happen. And work itself works best when fueled, again by the imagination.

It’s time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things.

What drives me is truly inspiring people to realize they can live more creative and simple lives.