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.
Interpretation
Art enriches our lives and connects us through shared experiences.
In this quote, Steven Soderbergh expresses gratitude toward individuals who contribute to the creation and sharing of art. He emphasizes the importance of artistic expression in making the world a more livable place, highlighting how art allows for connection and understanding among people, elevating daily experiences and enriching human life.
In practice
Use this quote during an art exhibition to highlight the importance of artists.
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.'
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.
Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.
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.
For me, drum elements are like hieroglyphics - I think of a certain physical figure, and a little three-dimensional glyph will appear in my mind as I'm playing.
I believe that as a writer and a director, you're only providing the skeleton of a character, and you're hiring actors to fill it out.
Every form of theatre has something in common with a visit to the doctor. On the way out, one should always feel better than on the way in.
It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.
The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
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