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Born
January 14, 1963 · Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Birth name
Steven Andrew Soderbergh

Spouses
Jules Asner (May 10, 2003 – present)
Betsy Brantley (December 2, 1989 – 1994) (divorced, 1 child)

QUOTES:

There are certain directors – Spielberg, David Fincher, John McTiernan – who sort of see things in three dimensions, and I was watching their films and sort of breaking them down to see how they laid sequences out, and how they paid attention to things like lens length, where the eyelines were, when the camera moved, how they cut, how they led your eye from one part of the frame to another.

…there’ve been a lot of questions about commercial films and non-commercial films, and I’ve never really made that separation in my mind. There’s no question that when you read a piece of material, you have ideas about how it should be realised … certainly when I read the script for Ocean’s Eleven, I thought if this was realised the way it should, then it would appeal to a lot of people. Then you get involved in a film like Solaris and if you realise it the way it should be realised, then it won’t appeal to a lot of people. But what are you going to do? You have to go at it…

I learned from Richard Lester that as your career goes on, you learn more about how things can go wrong, but you never learn how things can go right. And it’s really disorienting.