I like to know where I am. I don't like the kind of cutting where you don't know where you are.
Steven SoderberghAll human interaction, you can break it down to incentives. All relationships, at some level, are transactional. They're fascinated with incentives.
Steven SoderberghThe great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.
Steven SoderberghI think the feeling that we're going to work together again usually starts to come up before the first project's even done. The Black Keys and I have already talked about starting on something new.
Steven SoderberghIf you're sitting around thinking what other people think about your work, you'll just become paralysed.
Steven SoderberghI think often people fall into the breadth trap of wanting to do too long a period of time, and obviously there's this sort of algorithm of how much depth you can put into something times how much of their life you're trying to show. My attitude has always been, I'd rather show a briefer period of time in more detail than a longer period of time in less detail.
Steven Soderbergh