If you're not flying people around on wires, and you're only allowing them to do things that people can really do, it can't go on for very long, because eventually somebody gets the drop on the other person and then it's over.
Steven SoderberghYouโre supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, youโre not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.
Steven SoderberghI always have a plan, but then I'm always ready to throw the plan out, and everyone's ready to make a radical left turn if necessary.
Steven SoderberghI find myself in situations a lot where I have to say to someone, "This can be better," and it's hard to say that.
Steven SoderberghA big part of making an album is that you want to have enough material - you want to have enough stuff for people to hear and know that it represents you. So it does sometimes turn into a situation where you're saying to the person you're working with, "Well, what do you want?" But then there are other times when I work with people and they'll turn to me and say, "How do you want to do this?" And that's actually when I work best.
Steven Soderbergh