Steven Soderbergh: I'm Quick... And Cheap (2011)
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2021
- Director Steven Soderbergh talks about why he was first interested in movies, how "sex, lies, and videotape" (1989) found its way into the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival, the nine years in the wilderness that followed, the importance of meeting George Clooney and making "Out of Sight" (1998), why the "Oceans" series is not just "one for the studio", being his own Director of Photography, why he hates producing, getting "loaded" at the 2001 Oscars because he didn't think he would win for either "Erin Brockovich" (2000) or "Traffic" (2000), why he might retire (he didn't), why he doesn't write anymore, and what he still loves about cinema.
Soderbergh is so good at what he does.
Great questions for a great director. Lovely and informative interview.
Great interview thanks for sharing!
Just hearing all these name drops---they're all over Hollywood--not that it was a surprise to me.
I find Soderbergh’s claim that the person who came up with “one for me one for them” ha never made films to be laughable. Soderbergh is in a privileged position to be able to make personal films at a high budget. Many many filmmakers don’t have that luxury. They are paying their bills, feeding their families, putting their kids through college and want to make personal films but they’re not a household name like Soderbergh so have to make those compromises because they no leverage. His claims are that of a man living in a bubble of privilege without knowing it’s a bubble… because he’s lived in it so long.
He didn't disparage people who make films at a lower budget.
He himself often embraces low budget independent filmmaking.
"Unsane" was created for "just" $1.5 million. Sex Lies and Videotapes for $ 1.2 million. I know it sounds like a lot of money for many filmmakers, but I’m sure that even if he had zero budget, he would manage to create great films. He can write, direct, produce, be the cinematographer, and edit.
He is not pretending to be the best, he says he is a hard worker who works “fast and cheap”, and had “luck”.
There’s no need to be offended by his comments, and I don’t think the interviewer was.
@@kevinlaurent2017 This is a strawman argument that misses my point. I didn't say he disparaged anyone. I said his claim of "they're all for me" is coming from someone who is in the top 5% of filmmakers who have the artistic freedom to make high level studio films the way they want. Of course they're all for him, he's Steven Soderbergh, not Jo-Blo filmmaker. Not every filmmaker gets that privilege and often have to do many "one for thems" to feed their families, pay their bills, etc. Soderbergh's claim that the person who came up with the term "one for them one for me" has never made films is absolutely ridiculous and untrue... it is the reality of the business for 95% of filmmakers.
@@farrellrose4230 - You claim that the basic Jo-Blo filmmakers only get to make films “for them” (the studios). Really?
I think it’s quite the opposite, Jo-Blo filmmakers never get to direct studio films, you can call it a privilege but it's a very tough selection process, and Steven Soderbergh deserves everything he got.
@@farrellrose4230 - I don’t actually know who came up with the expression “one for me, one for them”, who was it?
I also have a feeling that it didn’t come from a filmmaker, it’s more something a journalist would make up.
@@kevinlaurent2017 No, I didn't say "only". I can no longer debate someone who flat out misrepresents what I say.
...and carefully racist
How so?
@@TheJonnyEnglishHe doesn't actually think that: he's just coming to grips with his own life, as a failure, and is lashing out at any buzzword.