If You’re an “Artist,” Let Steven Soderbergh Cut Your Crap

This is a blog post where I just magically shut up and let Steve dance, dance, dance…

• “How do people change their minds? What is the process by which a
  person changes their mind about a deeply held belief? What’s the thing
  that clicks over for them? I have no idea.”
• “The original idea for (Bubble) came from a news story
  that the writer and I had seen—remember that news story about the woman
  who went into an ER with an infant and said, “I just gave birth to this
  baby”? She was, like, covered in blood. “I just gave birth to this
  baby, would you help me?” The ER people knew immediately something was
  wrong. It turned out she’d killed her friend at work, who was pregnant,
  and took the baby out of her stomach and brought it to the ER. And this
  was all because this woman wanted a baby and was jealous that her
  friend was having one. This was the craziest thing I ever read. We were
  talking about this line that gets crossed…”
• “The hardest thing in the world. It’s really easy to be obscure and
  elliptical and so fucking hard to be good and clear. It breaks people.
  Because you don’t often get encouragement to do that, to be good and
  clear.”
• “A lot of people who write about art don’t understand the
  importance of failure, the importance of process. Woody Allen can’t
  leap from Annie Hall to Manhattan. He has to make Interiors in between to get to Manhattan. You’ve got to let him do that."

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