Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.
Interpretation
Creating enjoyable films is surprisingly challenging, highlighting a unique irony in filmmaking.
This quote by Steven Soderbergh reflects the paradoxical nature of filmmaking, where the aim of producing an entertaining film can often lead to greater complexity and difficulty. It suggests that despite the intentions of making something fun and enjoyable, the process involves significant challenges and artistic struggles that can make the outcome less than straightforward.
In practice
During a film festival discussion, I could use this quote to highlight the challenges directors face.
If you talk to any filmmaker, and if you said to them, 'I guarantee you x amount of money per month for the rest of your life, and it's not a big amount of money, but I can also guarantee that you will work continually, you will get to make what you want to make,' any filmmaker on the planet will make that kind of deal. I would have made it.
When people say that moviegoing is dead, I go, 'OK, so the makers of 'Get Out' should've sold that movie to a platform? Then they don't have this insane, crazy success theatrically all over the world.'
I want to thank anyone who spends part of their day creating...anybody who spends part of their day sharing their experience with us-I think this world would be unlivable without art and I thank you.
Cinema is not about format, and it's not about venue. Cinema is an approach. Cinema is a state of mind on the part of the filmmaker. I've seen commercials that have cinema in them, and I've seen Oscar-winning movies that don't. I'm fine with this.
A success, to me, is the ability to keep working. That's success. It has nothing to do with money; it's the ability to keep getting things made, period.
You don't go make 'Schizopolis' if you're trying to protect some idea of yourself as a filmmaker.
You photograph with all your ideology.
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.
the moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy
I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
Designers don't live in a vacuum; they are not blind to what's going on. They, too, will be inspired by what they see, and that will come out in their work.
Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.
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