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AV Club: You’re not someone who’s like, “Well, I want a three-hour cut down the line at some point”?
Steven Soderbergh: No, not at all. I’m not precious about anything. The effort it took to get something means nothing to me in post. It means nothing to the audience. I’ll chop limbs off. I’ll put an arm where a leg should be. I’ll do anything.
AVC: But it sometimes means something to the actors and writers, doesn’t it?
SS: Yeah. But, again, everybody, including me, has to submit to what it needs to be. The thing is at the top of the pyramid, the best version of the thing; we all have to serve that. You forget that at your own risk. And I think movies are too long, in general.
— Today’s AV Club interview with Steven Soderbergh is fantastic — really enjoy when directors actually talk about storytelling craft without elevating it. Soderbergh makes a very good case for all these pretentious assholes bitching about formats and the death of celluloid to kind of shut up and look at things logistically. I could rant for days.
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