At the San Francisco International Film Festival this year, Steven Soderbergh gave a ‘State of Cinema’ address. Have you seen it yet? If not, go read the transcript or watch the speech. It’s about 40 minutes long and it’s awesome.
Here’s one of my favorite parts of it:
I want to jump up on the table and scream, “Do you know how lucky we are to be doing this? Do you understand that the only way to repay that karmic debt is to make something good, is to make something ambitious, something beautiful, something memorable?” But I didn’t do that. I just sat there, and I smiled.
– Steven Soderbergh