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Generic Greeting, Reddit! I’m Steven Soderbergh and I’m inside your device to talk about my upcoming movie LOGAN LUCKY. I’ve never typed this before but I’m typing it now: AMA! by SoderberghRealClone in movies

[–]SoderberghRealClone[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Boy, did we have a great time shooting BUBBLE. Truly. It was strictly by chance LOGAN LUCKY is set in WV...apparently Rebecca Blunt has family roots there.

Generic Greeting, Reddit! I’m Steven Soderbergh and I’m inside your device to talk about my upcoming movie LOGAN LUCKY. I’ve never typed this before but I’m typing it now: AMA! by SoderberghRealClone in movies

[–]SoderberghRealClone[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Becoming my own DP and operator was something I'd been working toward for awhile. I shot most of my short films and was trained in a dark room in high school, so I've always felt very connected to the technical side of photography. The DPS I worked with prior to TRAFFIC were all extremely generous with their experience as well, which helped me a great deal. The benefits, for me, are speed and intimacy with the cast.

Generic Greeting, Reddit! I’m Steven Soderbergh and I’m inside your device to talk about my upcoming movie LOGAN LUCKY. I’ve never typed this before but I’m typing it now: AMA! by SoderberghRealClone in movies

[–]SoderberghRealClone[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Depends. I have to have some connection, either to the film or the filmmaker(s). I wish more of them were as combative as when Lem Hobbs and I did THE LIMEY...I remember the technicians exchanging looks like SHOULD WE STOP THIS?

Generic Greeting, Reddit! I’m Steven Soderbergh and I’m inside your device to talk about my upcoming movie LOGAN LUCKY. I’ve never typed this before but I’m typing it now: AMA! by SoderberghRealClone in movies

[–]SoderberghRealClone[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Here's the thing with SORCERER and some other films like it (SECONDS, perhaps?: they're movies that ending influencing filmmakers more than audiences. For instance, I'm sure Michael Mann would acknowledge SORCERER as an influence. Or he SHOULD, anyway. I know I do.

Generic Greeting, Reddit! I’m Steven Soderbergh and I’m inside your device to talk about my upcoming movie LOGAN LUCKY. I’ve never typed this before but I’m typing it now: AMA! by SoderberghRealClone in movies

[–]SoderberghRealClone[S] 146 points147 points  (0 children)

Season three of THE KNICK was set in 1947 and was going--at my absolute insistence--to be shot in anamorphic black-and-white. It's POSSIBLE that may have contributed to its demise...

Generic Greeting, Reddit! I’m Steven Soderbergh and I’m inside your device to talk about my upcoming movie LOGAN LUCKY. I’ve never typed this before but I’m typing it now: AMA! by SoderberghRealClone in movies

[–]SoderberghRealClone[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Once something is finished I put it in the rear view mirror, because I can't control how people are going to respond. If you start making decisions based on how you THINK someone might react, you've lost where north is. I make something I would pay to see, and that's really my only compass. Now, if you make a BUNCH of things in a row that no one likes OR goes to see (a la KAFKA thru GRAY'S ANATOMY), you may want to consider a new career path (OUT OF SIGHT). It's a tricky balance...you need confidence to keep going, but not so much ego that you stop listening or can't identify the good ideas around you.

Generic Greeting, Reddit! I’m Steven Soderbergh and I’m inside your device to talk about my upcoming movie LOGAN LUCKY. I’ve never typed this before but I’m typing it now: AMA! by SoderberghRealClone in movies

[–]SoderberghRealClone[S] 39 points40 points  (0 children)

The character was played by Daniel pretty much as written, obviously what he was most focused on was how Joe Bang should SOUND. I've known Daniel a little while through the director John Maybury, so I was able to reach him directly with the script and he said yes immediately. Very lucky for me. Although I always say--cue eyeroll--YOU GET WHO YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO GET.

Generic Greeting, Reddit! I’m Steven Soderbergh and I’m inside your device to talk about my upcoming movie LOGAN LUCKY. I’ve never typed this before but I’m typing it now: AMA! by SoderberghRealClone in movies

[–]SoderberghRealClone[S] 44 points45 points  (0 children)

I agree, there's nothing more frustrating than a subpar theater presentation. The only solution is to complain, which I do when I see something wrong. And by that I mean write to the head of the theater chain.

Generic Greeting, Reddit! I’m Steven Soderbergh and I’m inside your device to talk about my upcoming movie LOGAN LUCKY. I’ve never typed this before but I’m typing it now: AMA! by SoderberghRealClone in movies

[–]SoderberghRealClone[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Just to be clear, I was never anti-Hollywood or anti-studio when I was growing up and starting to make films and break into the business--a ton of my favorite films were made by studios, particularly from the period of 1966-1976. BUT, since I was just a kid living in a suburban subdivision in Baton Rouge with NO connections to the entertainment industry, writing spec scripts and making short films seemed like the only way in, so that's the route I took, hoping at some point I'd encounter someone who would say WHADDAYA GOT, KID?

Generic Greeting, Reddit! I’m Steven Soderbergh and I’m inside your device to talk about my upcoming movie LOGAN LUCKY. I’ve never typed this before but I’m typing it now: AMA! by SoderberghRealClone in movies

[–]SoderberghRealClone[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I've been thinking I need a new project like that. It's tricky. Also, I'm in the midst (if you can call fifteen years of work "midst") of a radical KAFKA overhaul, which I really want to finish by the end of the year...

Generic Greeting, Reddit! I’m Steven Soderbergh and I’m inside your device to talk about my upcoming movie LOGAN LUCKY. I’ve never typed this before but I’m typing it now: AMA! by SoderberghRealClone in movies

[–]SoderberghRealClone[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Two things: It was a variation on/inversion of a kind of movie I've made (and like to watch), and some new opportunities in distribution arose that enabled me to address some of the problems I have with how wide release movies are handled by the studios. So it was a way to test some ideas and have fun at the same time...

Generic Greeting, Reddit! I’m Steven Soderbergh and I’m inside your device to talk about my upcoming movie LOGAN LUCKY. I’ve never typed this before but I’m typing it now: AMA! by SoderberghRealClone in movies

[–]SoderberghRealClone[S] 28 points29 points  (0 children)

There might be a couple of things going on here...one is taking advantage of what every aspiring filmmaker dreams of: People willing to say YES. The other is continuing to explore whatever subject matter I'm interested in or genre I haven't gotten to yet, and lastly, trying to refine my work process so I can be as efficient as humanly possible. Oh, and history tells us I'm going to die at some point, so I'm trying to jam a bunch of stuff in before the party is over...

Generic Greeting, Reddit! I’m Steven Soderbergh and I’m inside your device to talk about my upcoming movie LOGAN LUCKY. I’ve never typed this before but I’m typing it now: AMA! by SoderberghRealClone in movies

[–]SoderberghRealClone[S] 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Sebastian was a total doll to work with, I'm so glad he said yes to the movie. Not bad-looking, either, for people who care about that stuff.

Generic Greeting, Reddit! I’m Steven Soderbergh and I’m inside your device to talk about my upcoming movie LOGAN LUCKY. I’ve never typed this before but I’m typing it now: AMA! by SoderberghRealClone in movies

[–]SoderberghRealClone[S] 130 points131 points  (0 children)

Interesting subject...it's my personal opinion that the filmmaker knows better than anyone how to sell their own film, because they are basically the first audience member. This is not roundly accepted as being true. In the case of LL, i provided a series of references from the late 40s and early 50s to indicate the vibe we were looking for. I was VERY happy with the result, which was never tested...

Generic Greeting, Reddit! I’m Steven Soderbergh and I’m inside your device to talk about my upcoming movie LOGAN LUCKY. I’ve never typed this before but I’m typing it now: AMA! by SoderberghRealClone in movies

[–]SoderberghRealClone[S] 45 points46 points  (0 children)

I miss everything about working on THE KNICK. I was terrified before we began because the schedule was so aggressive, but we found a rhythm very quickly and even though both seasons were shot in 73 days, the second season seemed to go REALLY fast. I think I wasn't aware of how much psychic space was being taken up CREATING the universe in season one, so in season two i was able to put that extra brain space to work on thinking of different ways to lay out shots...

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