Everything is the Directors Fault: Interview with Steven Soderbergh
In college I took a class on Steven Soderbergh. If you’ve never watched a director’s entire filmography I highly recommend it. Steven Soderbergh is a good one because he wrote a book, gives a lot of interviews, and likes to do DVD commentaries on his movies.
One of Soderbergh’s favorite things to talk about is the creative process:
A lot of people who write about art don’t understand the importance of failure, the importance of process. Woody Allen can’t leap from Annie Hall to Manhattan. He has to make Interiors in between to get to Manhattan. You’ve got to let him do that.
Check out this Believer Magazine interview.