You can't get good at anything unless you do it day in and day out, over and over.

- Steven Soderbergh

We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.

- Steven Soderbergh

"A meteor hits planet Earth" - that's a story idea but that doesn't give me any indication of what the character is.

- Steven Soderbergh

You’re supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you’re not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.

- Steven Soderbergh

I'm probably more character-driven than plot-driven. It's rare for me to attach myself to an idea for a story.

- Steven Soderbergh

If you're going to make a movie for ten thousand you can talk everybody into doing it for free. You could make a really good-looking movie right for …

- Steven Soderbergh

I can make a movie about Lee Harvey Oswald and make you feel what he feels and make you understand why he believes what he believes. That doesn't mea…

- Steven Soderbergh

To me the director’s job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.

- Steven Soderbergh

In the land of ideas, you are always renting.

- Steven Soderbergh