{"id":262,"date":"2006-09-01T00:56:23","date_gmt":"2006-09-01T00:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2006\/09\/01\/stephen-soderbergh-interview-in-the-believer\/"},"modified":"2006-10-14T14:16:53","modified_gmt":"2006-10-14T14:16:53","slug":"stephen-soderbergh-interview-in-the-believer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2006\/09\/01\/stephen-soderbergh-interview-in-the-believer\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Soderbergh interview in The Believer"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just stumbled across an interesting interview<\/a> The Believer<\/a> magazine conducted with Steven Soderbergh<\/strong> whilst browsing around Jason Kottke’s blog<\/a>. He talks about a few different things ranging from Brokeback Mountain to films of his that failed like Kafka. But the bit that stuck out for me was how cheaply films he thinks films can be made for and the problems they face getting distributed:<\/p>\n

BLVR: When you shot Bubble,<\/em> how much did the camera cost?<\/p>\n

SS: It\u2019s like four thousand dollars. You could do the whole thing for ten thousand dollars.<\/p>\n

BLVR: How much did Bubble<\/em> cost altogether?<\/p>\n

SS: One point six million. Because I paid people. There\u2019s a tipping point. If you\u2019re going to make a movie for ten thousand you can talk everybody into doing it for free. You could make a really good-looking movie right now for ten grand, if you have an idea. That\u2019s the trick. I was watching Alphaville<\/em> this weekend, and I\u2019d love to do like a ten-minute version of Alphaville<\/em> here in Manhattan. It\u2019s so easy now. I don\u2019t know what the ultimate result of that will be\u2014whether you\u2019ll see a sort of a film version of iTunes, where you can access things that have been made independently by people.<\/p>\n

BLVR: Books, as well\u2014you can self-publish your book easily, have them ship boxes of the book to you, but there\u2019s no vetting process.<\/p>\n

SS: You\u2019re right. But then the question is\u2014whose vetting process is this, and who are<\/em> these people? A buddy of mine, I went and saw his art at DUMBO, and I asked him why his shit wasn\u2019t showing in the big New York galleries. And he said he can\u2019t get in there, he doesn\u2019t know anybody. It\u2019s just the way it works. Your response to that can be \u201cFuck them, I don\u2019t need the imprimatur of a bunch of Manhattan gallery owners to know that I\u2019m good,\u201d and you\u2019d be right. But if you\u2019re a painter and you want people to know who you are and recognize your work, you\u2019ve got to build some long-term value, you\u2019re beholden to this cabal. I don\u2019t know where the middle point is\u2014\u201cI can\u2019t find anyone to vouch for the legitimacy of this thing that somebody\u2019s asking me to download\u201d\u2014and access that\u2019s being controlled by a bunch of people who, it\u2019s possible, if you met, you\u2019d actually hate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wonder if he is making an oblique analogy between New York gallery owners and Hollywood studios?<\/p>\n

> IMDb entry for Steven Soderbergh<\/a>
\n> Wikipedia entry for Bubble<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just stumbled across an interesting interview The Believer magazine conducted with Steven Soderbergh whilst browsing around Jason Kottke’s blog. He talks about a few different things ranging from Brokeback Mountain to films of his that failed like Kafka. But the bit that stuck out for me was how cheaply films he thinks films can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}