29 January 2013
A Conversation With Steven Soderbrergh About Retiring
I found this whole interview strangely inspiring.
I stopped reading reviews of my own films after Traffic, and I find it hard to read any critics now because they are just so easily fooled. From a directorial standpoint, you can't throw one by me. I know if you know what you're doing, and, "Wow, critics"--their reading of filmmaking is very superficial. Look, nothing excites me more than a good film. It makes me want to make something good. But I have certain standards, and I don't grade on a curve. If you want to be a director, I'm going to treat you like I treat everybody. So it's frustrating when critics praise things that I feel are not up to snuff.