Steven Soderbergh, whose directorial career stretches from Sex, Lies and Videotape back in 1989 to Side Effects next month (with more than 20 movies in between, including Out of Sight and Ocean's 11) has decided he's not going to make films any more.
Steven Soderbergh, whose directorial career stretches from Sex, Lies and Videotape back in 1989 to Side Effects next month (with more than 20 movies in between, including Out of Sight and Ocean's 11) has decided he's not going to make films any more.
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He has, he says, retired from cinema.
There's more than one reason for this. But the most telling ones come in the negative column. Hollywood, he argues, doesn't care about directors any more. It only cares about money. "I think the audience for the kinds of movies I grew up liking has migrated to television," he said this week.
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Steven Soderbergh, whose directorial career stretches from Sex, Lies and Videotape back in 1989 to Side Effects next month (with more than 20 movies in between, including Out of Sight and Ocean's 11) has decided he's not going to make films any more.
He has, he says, retired from cinema.
There's more than one reason for this. But the most telling ones come in the negative column. Hollywood, he argues, doesn't care about directors any more. It only cares about money. "I think the audience for the kinds of movies I grew up liking has migrated to television," he said this week.
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